A gilt bronze torchère
with pricket and coronet above an egg and dart border above acanthus wrapped collar, the reeded column on trefoil base with paw feet to the angles, probably French, 19th century -- 84¼in. (214cm) high
Lot Essay
A related pedestal torchère is illustrated, Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine, Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801, plate 23.
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