Lot 491

A Pair of 19th Century Venetian Carved, Polychromed & Gilded Blackamoor Torchères. The Moorish figures wearing elaborate gilt tunics with incised details and striped turbans, each holding a tazza & a bunch of gilded grapes with a green faux marble serpentine sided platform upon their heads edged in gilt gadrooning. Their torsos metamorphosing into foliate-crested twin tails entwined around sweeping pedestals and leading down to scrolling tripod bases, 38½ in (98 cm) high.

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A Pair of 19th Century Venetian Carved, Polychromed & Gilded Blackamoor Torchères. The Moorish figures wearing elaborate gilt tunics with incised details and striped turbans, each holding a tazza & a bunch of gilded grapes with a green faux marble serpentine sided platform upon their heads edged in gilt gadrooning. Their torsos metamorphosing into foliate-crested twin tails entwined around sweeping pedestals and leading down to scrolling tripod bases, 38½ in (98 cm) high.