Pair of 19th Century French Carved Marble and Gilt Bronze Cassolette Lamps

Decorate a mantel or a console with this elegant pair of antique bronze dore and marble cassolettes. Crafted in France, circa 1890, these urns stand on square marble bases with reces...

Crafted in France, circa 1890, these antique urns are carved of marble and stand on square bases ending with bronze rounded feet. Each vessel with bronze ring motif around, is dresse...

Decorate a mantel or a console with this colorful pair of antique cassolettes. Crafted in France circa 1870, each urn is built of porcelain stands on a square bronze base with cut co...

Decorate a wine cellar or a bar with this pair of antique "cabaret" lamps. Crafted in France circa 1880, each black forest sculpture stands on a round base and features a carved male...

A superb pair of 19th century bronze lamps, with classical scenes depicting frolicking cherubs in relief, flanked by goat head masks to the sides on stepped rouge marble bases termin...

A very fine pair of French, 19th century neoclassical style gilt bronze-mounted marble urns. The ovoid form marble urns flanked by foliate scroll handles with satyr mask terminals, o...

19th century, pair of French gilt bronze and marble candelabra The pair of three-light candelabra was made in the 19th century in France in the Louis XVI style. Each candelabra c...

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...