A pair of Italian painted and parcel-gilt torchère sculptures Genoese, 18th century

each with a semi-naked standing female figure in drapery, one depicting Summer, the other Spring, holding a ribbon-tied cornucopia supporting five later gilt-metal candearms hung with glass beads, faceted and pear-shaped glass drops on a rectangular concave faux porphyry plinth and faux green marble base; one with the stencilled capital letter E in black ink, on the reverse of the base

Previously sold Sotheby`s London, Important Continental Furniture and Tapestries, 10th June 1999, lot 128

Generally these are in fairly good order. Both have loses to paint and gilding with sonme latern overpainting. Both have old worm damage. Both later adapted for electricity. Age cracks to both figures. Some minor losses and chips to drops and with some replaced elements. One figure has a break to the stem which has been repaired and has some overpainting.There are chips and losses to the plinth that this piece is on. The otehr figure has similar losses and reapirs tot he fingers on the figure. There are also losses to the plinth. Both are highly decorative.
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