Chiurazzi Foundry
A Large Bronze Lantern, modelled as an oak tree on a stone and animal figures, Naples late 19th/early 20th century
Bronze
h. 56 cm
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A large Italian bronze model of a tree, used as a lamp, from the Chiurazzi Foundry, Naples, after the antique, the long trunk with a snake wrapped around the top, with four extending branches in which lizards and snakes rest, two hung with tortoises on chains, each with an aperture to the top for a wick, on a square marble base, with lions paw feet, 56cm high.
A similar bronze ornamental tree lamp is listed in the Chiurazzi catalogue as item 491.