PAIR OF CYLINDRICAL COLUMNS France around 1780-1790. Beige and pink granite. H.101 cm Ø. 32 cm Rust stains on both tops. The top of one of the columns has been restored. Crack still visible only on the top. Beautiful chased bronze decoration with acanthus frieze acanthus frieze in the lower part, and in the upper part with a frieze of stylized foliage stylized foliage. These two columns are in four parts: - the base with moldings in decreasing pink granite - the body in beige granite with simple molding - an element without molding in grey granite decorated with friezes - and a last part serving as a in pink granite with molding.

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