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.