A pair of French black-painted cast-iron figural torcheres
Property of a Pennsylvania Collector
A pair of French black-painted cast-iron figural torcheres

PROBABLY CAST BY THE VAL D'OSNE FOUNDRY, AFTER MODELS BY MATHURIN MOREAU, CIRCA 1880

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A pair of French black-painted cast-iron figural torcheres
Probably cast by the Val d'Osne foundry, after models by Mathurin Moreau, Circa 1880
Each modelled as a semi-nude blackamoor, one a jongleur, the other a charmeur de serpents
54in. (137.2cm.) high (2)

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