Pair Of 19th Century Torches In Richly Crafted Gilt Bronze, Decor Of Female Masks, Flowers Etc

This is a beautiful model whose polylobed umbilicus has a contoured edge with medallion motifs interspersed with foliage scrolls forming the feet; its upper part adorned with three feminine masks with curly hair topped with fleur-de-lis and a face underlined by a collar and a large collar scalloped like foliage, and alternated with a floral garland arranged in fall .
At the base of the shaft a first node takes up the motifs of foliage and medallions followed by a constriction; the barrel itself, is with grooves interspersed with three rings decorated with water leaves surmounted by a "flame" supporting a second knot whose particularity is to present a jagged edge with a floral garland of roses.
Higher up, a second constriction followed by a gadrooned ring from which rises a richly crafted binet with patterns as a reminder of the different elements of the object.
The whole is a beautiful aesthetic success and although they do not seem to bear signatures these torches are certainly the work of a renowned bronze artist.
Formerly gilded, it must be admitted that the gilding is largely absent but still remains a little in the funds of the most "excavated, thin" places.

Height: 28.3 cm / Max diameter. 13 cm / Total weight: 1,880 g

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