Pair of French 19th Century Neo-Classical St. Bronze, Ormolu, and Marble Lamps

A beautiful and high quality true pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by fine patinated bronze and ormolu bases with ...

An impressive and large scale French 19th century neo-classical st. patinated bronze and ormolu lamp. The lamp is raised by an elegant square ormolu base with a fine mottled border b...

A very handsome French 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze and ormolu vase mounted into a lamp, signed E. Picault. The lamp is raised on ormolu ball feet below the circul...

An elegant and high quality pair of French mid 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated Bronze and marble lamps. Each lamp is raised on a black Belgian marble and Vert de Patricia ma...

These are beautiful! This is a pair of French neoclassical style white porcelain lamps with gilt and gilt bronze accents. The wiring is new, and I believe they are signed up inside t...

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 good quality pair of classical late 19th century bronze lamps, each with raised decoration of children playing beneath swags, vine leaves a...

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...