a pair of french egyptian revival bronze-mounted incised and painted black and yellow marble obelisks

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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a pair of french egyptian revival bronze-mounted incised and painted black and yellow marble obelisks
second half 19th century
Later mounted on painted wood faux marble plinths and adapted as table lamps, of typical form and decorated with pseudo hieroglyphics, with bronze rams' head mounts to the sides and on rectangular section feet
25¼in. (64cm.) high, excluding fitment (2)

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