1850s Antique Pair of Giltwood Sicilian Torcheres

Two silver plated candle holders designed by Lino Sabattini and manufactured by Sabattini Argenteria in the Eighties. They have been manufactured in Italy marked on a side, they are ...

A Sicilian Sculpture by Tudisco created in the 1970s, in very good conditions, signed on a side. The sculpture portrays a lying naked woman Terracotta is a type of clay-based cerami...

A mid-century Modern candelabra designed and manufactured in Italy in the manner of Fontana Arte, brass it's in original patina, glass it's in perfect condition. This Italian candela...

An iconic Italian candle holder or vase designed and manufactured in Italy in the Seventies by Gabbianelli, it's marked and labeled on the bottom. This kind of ceramic namde vetrochi...

Three spheres made in Sicily, in the small town of Caltagirone, world famous for handcrafted ceramics. They are especially made for our store and are unique pieces. Measures: Diamete...

Three spheres made in Sicily, in the small town of Caltagirone, world famous for handcrafted ceramics. They are especially made for our store and are unique pieces. Diameter of the m...

A pair of 18th-century Louis XVI metal covered wood Sicilian torchères exquisite examples of the neoclassical style, combining the elegance of Louis XVI design with the regional infl...

This impressive pair of 19th century Italian torches are a sublime work of European Baroque art. Carved in golden wood, it gives us an exquisite decoration of angels among fruits and...

Very nice pair of Silver Plated Church candle sticks .France 1850s Triangle shaped base . with Three saints Jesus Maria and Josef.. normal wear ...

Carved figures holding aloft a cornucopia form torchere. Dressed in flowing tunics slashed at the knees, shod in sandals strapped about the calves standing contra posto on square pli...

Pair of torchères in gilded and carved wood, dated from the middle of the 18th century in Portuguese, the base is a triangular shape that rests on three small feet. retains its orig...

A fine and rare pair of English Regency period torchères, or stands (or candle stands) in the manner of Thomas Hope. Circa 1810. Both are raised on tapering simulated-bronze column supports with circular tops and fluted gilt collars, on concave-sided triform bases with winged-panther mask monopodia. The column bases issue from spreading, gilded, carved lotuses. These antique torcheres might also be referred to as columns, ornamental stands, candle sticks, or candelabra. In superb condition throughout. Literature: ‘Thomas Hope – Regency Designer’ ed. David Watkin & Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2008). The Aurora Room, Duchess Street, photo from V & A Museum, fig. 68-1, p. 378. The Royal Collection, HM Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 588- 1-2, 45- 1-2, figs. 78-2, 78-3, p. 396. The Faringdon Collection, Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, illustr. 88, p. 414. The pair of stands we are offering here correspond closely to the pair in the Faringdon Collection (see above). Watkin and Hewat-Jaboor state; ‘’A ‘Roman’ stand of this precise design, perhaps an imaginative variation on one published by Visconti*, is illustrated in ‘Household Furniture’, plate L, number 2… Hope also owned several classical Roman candelabra...