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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT PARCEL-GILT, BRONZED AND MAHOGANY-VENEERED TORCHERES

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, TUSCANY

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT PARCEL-GILT, BRONZED AND MAHOGANY-VENEERED TORCHERES
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, TUSCANY
Each with a white marble top on a dished circular rest with leaftip base held aloft by a Classical lady wearing drapery robes on a stepped cylindrical pedestal with a laurel wreath base on a tripartite plinth raised on hairy paw feet
37 in. (94 cm.) high, 13¾ in. (34.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

These stylish torchères, with their solemn Classical figural supports, relate to the à l'antique furniture of the Sienese designer, Agostino Fantastici. For related examples by Fantastici see A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Guisto Il Granducato di Toscana e gli Stati Settentrionali, Milan, 1986, vol. II, pp.196-199.

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