Pair of 19iCentury Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Censers Turned into Lamps

A large late 19 Century Qing Era Chinese Nanking Porcelain Vase in famille verte crackle glaze decorated with intricate warrior and landscape scenes The vase would have been exported to France from Nanking China...

A pair of French restauration period figurative lamps bases featuring patinated bronze classically draped standing figures one representing Diana with her trademark bow and quiver of...

A beautifully cast pair of French 19th century neoclassical patinated figural bronze nine arm candelabra after a model by Jaen Jacques Pradier They are signed J. Pradier and were converted into lamps in the 20th century. Each candelabra is cast as classically draped maiden with one representing Phyrne and the other unknown, standing on a circular stepped dark green marble socle base. There are no visible foundry marks on the bronzes. Born in Geneva in 1792 in Switzerland, Pradier was the son of a Protestant family from Toulouse. He left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, Charles-Simon Pradier, an engraver, and also attended the École des Beaux-Arts beginning in 1808. He won a Prix de Rome that enabled him to study in Rome from 1814-1818 at the Villa Médici. Pradier made his debut at the Salon in 1819 and quickly acquired a reputation as a competent artist. He studied under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris. In 1827 he became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts and a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. At the Salon of 1834, Pradier's Satyr and Bacchante...

Three vertical candle arms rise from a hexagonal base. The lamps/sticks are hallmarked with a heart symbol and the letters O and E on either side of the heart symbol. Other hallmarks...

A very good quality pair of late 19th century Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze vases / lamps. Having wonderful classical Embossed decoration with inset panels depicting mythi...

A pair of fabulous cylindrical forms Meiji Period (1868-1912) patinated bronze table lamps on carved wood bases with dragon, turtle, and mystical creatures motifs. Likely late 19th/Early 20th century. From a Los Angeles collection of fine Japanese vintage art...

A pair of antique 19th century Meiji Period Japanese patinated bronze vase table lamps. A pair of Japanese patinated bronze vases of cylindrical f...

The attenuated silhouette of this late 19th century bronze table lamp turns heads. It is an antique Asian archaic style bronze. The intricate carving and the oxidized bronze color sp...