MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY GIUSEPPE MICHIELI

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A PAIR OF VENETIAN BRONZE FLOOR-STANDING TORCHERES
MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY GIUSEPPE MICHIELI
Each tapering baluster stem decorated with putti, griffons and dancing figures supported by three blackamoors, each seated on a sea hippocampus, the triform base cast with a Venetian attribute to each side, on three lion-paw feet
55½ in. (141 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

An almost identical candelabrum was exhibited at the 1867 Paris Expostion Universelle. The design is reproduced in the Art Journal catalogue of the exhibition and referred to as a 'bronze chandelier, a work of true Art, is the production of Joseph Michieli, a distinguished artist-manufacturer of Venice'.

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