pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated Bronze and marble lamps

A very handsome pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze lamps. Each is raised on a square base with moulded wreath designed socle above. The patinated bronze t...

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 ...

A handsome pair of French 19th century neo-classical st. patinated bronze and Vert de Patricia marble lamps. Each lamp is raised by fine ormolu ball feet below the square Vert de Pat...

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 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 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...

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...