A PAIR OF BRONZE TORCHERES

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A PAIR OF BRONZE TORCHERES
In the Antique manner, modelled with figures on oil lamps, supported on reeded stems with triform claw bases, the undersides with plate inscribed Bell & Co./Los Angeles
81in. (205.7cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The collection of Mr and Mrs Jack Warner.

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Lot Essay

These torcheres, surmounted by the Dioscuri twins in their Phrygian caps, Castor and Pollux, emblematic of hospitality and the tutelary divinities of sailors, are modelled upon an antique oil-lamp which formed part of the collection of antiquities discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum and displayed in the Royal Museum at Naples.

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