A PAIR OF GILT-METAL-MOUNTED ITALIAN PEDESTALS con basso relievo istoriato, the upper part with a continuous frieze of figures allegorical of the Seasons, the lower parts with mythological figures including a maiden bathing at a stream attended by putti, and with a maiden and a satyr lifting up a term before drapery in landscapes, between dark-blue bands enriched with dense gilt foliate-scrolls, the everted tops moulded with a frieze of stiff leaves enriched in gilding, on gilt-metal shaped-square bases cast with wreaths of laurel and applied with leaves (one chipped at junction with central metal mount), blue crowned N marks, 20th Century

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A PAIR OF GILT-METAL-MOUNTED ITALIAN PEDESTALS con basso relievo istoriato, the upper part with a continuous frieze of figures allegorical of the Seasons, the lower parts with mythological figures including a maiden bathing at a stream attended by putti, and with a maiden and a satyr lifting up a term before drapery in landscapes, between dark-blue bands enriched with dense gilt foliate-scrolls, the everted tops moulded with a frieze of stiff leaves enriched in gilding, on gilt-metal shaped-square bases cast with wreaths of laurel and applied with leaves (one chipped at junction with central metal mount), blue crowned N marks, 20th Century
40½in. (103cm.) high (2)

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