A cast bronze and green patinated sixteen-light oil hanglamp, Italian, possibly Naples after the Antique, 19th century

the oil pans finely cast with alternating caryatids and palmette motives, the spaces between applied with satyr masks, recessed with a central medaillon depicting a Bacchic child on a Centaur

Large crack and smaller related within the bronze over four oil pans' width, minor rubbing to the bronze to some moulded parts due to standing of object, crack to one of the pans (ca. 6cm.), smaller damages, some rubbing to the green patination, chains for hanging not available.
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After an Etruscan model of the 5th century, found at Camucia near Cortona, preserved at the Museo dell' Accademia Etrusca in Cortona.