A patinated bronze oil lamp in the manner of Boschetti

with a removable brass liner; cover lacking ; bearing the signature B. Boschetti, Roma

Colour darker more bronze color and some minor verde gris. Good condition. Highly decorative. In three sections.
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Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1985, Vol. II, p. 131, fig. 287, illustrates an identical model in giallo antico, signed B. Boschetti, now in the Museum mario Praz, Rome. 

A viirtually identical model in bronze with a lid and on a marble base, signed B. Boschetti Roma, was sold in these Rooms, lot 87, 14th June 2000.