A PAIR OF FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL CANDLESTICKS
IMPRESSED MARK T.S FOR THOMAS SERGENT, CIRCA 1870
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A PAIR OF FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL CANDLESTICKS
IMPRESSED MARK T.S FOR THOMAS SERGENT, CIRCA 1870
Each with knopped stem and spreading foot, applied with a coiled snake and a lizard on a rustic ground moulded with flowering vine
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
Lot Essay
See Duchin, p. 44, cat. no. 27 for a similar pair in the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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