Pair of 19th Century French Red Marble and Bronze Cassolettes Table Lamps

A pair of English new Classical Greek style Empire revival with small brass handles in the form of swans with gilt decoration mounted on 13.5cm shade wooden pedestal bases with a brass design base holder. Complete with original pleated lamp...

A magnificent bronze gilt French Rococo chandelier with golden leaves and 5 bas-reliefs. With 20 flames on four arms. Completely rewired for EU standard (we can change to US standar...

FINE PAIR OF NEOCLASSICAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE MARBLE TABLE LAMPS France, probably Paris, circa third quarter of the 19th century Item # 404LBP26Q A magnificent pair of Neoclassical vases converted into lamps, they are designed loosely after the influential vases of Antiquity known as the Medici and Borhese Vases. Those Kraters were executed in marble and have been widely considered the finest and most well-conceived vases of Antiquity. They have been frequently copied and have been the inspiration for many decorative arts, including the present pair. The original vases feature bas-relief scenes in the Medici vase of a seated Iphigenia beneath a statue of Diana surrounded by Achilles, Ulysses and Agamemnon and in the Borghese vase a scene of drunk Silenius, Dionysus wearing his animal skin garment and Ariadne all together accompanied by a procession of revellers. The present example departs from antiquity, focusing only on the Bacchic revellers and have repeated this motif across the field of the vase. They carry in their outstretched arms wreathes and long drapes of their garments, several carrying in hand the Thrysus. The chorus of figures is loosely reminiscent to the Borghese Dancers, also known as the Dancing Hours, executed in bas relief in marble...

A Pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Red Marble Lamps Constructed from a deep red 'Rouge Languedoc' marble, the ovoid vases decorated with fine gilt bronze...