Pair of Good Napoleon III Rouge Marble Vases

A pair of French pate-sur-pate ceramic oil lamps, of globular form with applied white flowers and leafy tendrils on a blue ground, with high quality o...

A very fine pair of mid-Victorian parcel gilt bronze oil lamps, by Hinks, each modelled as a bearded warrior dressed in the style of a Saxon king with a crowned helmet, broadsword and double-headed battle axe, standing in front of a slender scroll support surmounted by a cut glass oil reservoir, all set on a shaped ormolu base encircled with a victor’s wreath of oak leaves, and raised on an octagonal bronze base, converted to electricity, stamped ‘Hinks & Sons Patent’ on the fitting. English, circa 1860. Footnote: James Hinks (1816-1905). Leaving home at 16 he tried many trades from wood turning, japanning, brush making, die sinking, medal making and even being a pub landlord, before manufacturing oil lamps. Working from the Crystal Lamp Works, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, he was joined by his son Joseph and renamed the company ‘James Hinks and Son in 1862’. They won a patent for ‘improvements in lamps’ the following year and swiftly launched the ‘Patent Duplex Lamp...

A pair of Napoleon III six-light candelabra each with a young faun in bronze holding two ormolu candle branches entwined with vine leaves set upon stop fluted grey marble columns wh...

A pair of Napoleon III two-branch ormolu wall lights, each in the form of a tied ribbon supporting a stem of fruiting vines and foliage with gadrooned drip trays and acanthus carved ...

A pair of French Napoleon III period opaline glass vases with hand-painted beadwork decoration, mounted as lamps with hand-carved wood bases with scalloped edges, painted to match. F...

A Napoleon III period porcelain oil lamp with gilt Greek key decoration and bronze mounts. Converted to electricity.   

Pair of Napoleon III lamps. Pair of engine turned period brass lamps previously converted from oil to electric on black bases; newly rewired with blac...

A Pair of Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze Neoclassical Vases, Fitted As Lamps. Attributed to Ferdinand Barbedienne. Designed in the Néo-Grec style with scrolled swan handles and body relie...