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Lot 270
  • 270

An Italian rococo red-painted torchère circa 1750, Venice, together with a second of later date.

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Description

  • height 32 in.; width 17 3/4 in.; depth 12 3/4 in.
  • 81 cm; 45 cm; 32.3 cm
each with a shaped top above a scrolled shell-carved support raised on tripod legs; small losses to one.

Catalogue Note

Similar examples are in the Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice, illustrated, G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento,  Milan, 1958, pls. CDXIV and CDXV; pl. CCVI fig. d illustrates one with identically shaped top with wave carving at the frieze.  For another comparable example, see Artioli Editore, Arredi del Settecento, 2003, p. 285.