In the taste of Renzo Mongiardino PAIR OF IMPORTANT OBELISQUES in ebony or blackened wood, each decorated with twenty embedded slabs of porphyry, lapis lazuli, brocatel marble, onyx and malachite. They stand on cubic pedestals topped with four ribboned marble slabs and supported by moulded, carved and gilded wooden bases resting on scrolled feet. Style of the XVIIth century (small accidents). Total height 219 cm The base : 40,5 x 40,5 cm.

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