A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED BRONZE TORCHERES

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED BRONZE TORCHERES
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
In the Renaissance style, each cast with putti, fish and espagnolette masks
84½ in. (215 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

C. Ruxton and Audrey G. Love; Christie's, New York, 20 October 2004, lot 301.

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Lot Essay

These impressive torchères were in the collection of C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love, where they stood at a landing of the staircase in their triplex at 655 Park Avenue. The Loves amassed a spectacular collection of objects across a number of categories including English Furniture, Chinese Works of Art, Antiquities and American Pictures, which was sold Christie's, New York in October 2004.

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