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PAIR OF MONUMENTAL TORCHERS FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY By Alexandre Durenne In cast iron, partly gilded, the shaft representing a child draped in the antique style with raised arms holding a gilded bronze bouquet with eighteen arms of light on two levels, resting on a base in imitation of porphyry, the arms of light monogrammed N, one figure signed A.DURENNE PARIS, the other A.DURENNE, a glass element missing on one of the two;electrified. H.:280 cm (110 ¼ in.) l.:85 cm (33 ½ in.) Provenance: By tradition, Palais de l'Élysée, Paris. A pair of monumental cast iron and gilt-bronze eighteen-light figural torcheres, by Alexandre Durenne, Paris, second half of the 19th century
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PAIR OF MONUMENTAL TORCHERS FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY By Alexandre Durenne In cast iron, partly gilded, the shaft representing a child draped in the antique style with raised arms holding a gilded bronze bouquet with eighteen arms of light on two levels, resting on a base in imitation of porphyry, the arms of light monogrammed N, one figure signed A.DURENNE PARIS, the other A.DURENNE, a glass element missing on one of the two;electrified. H.:280 cm (110 ¼ in.) l.:85 cm (33 ½ in.) Provenance: By tradition, Palais de l'Élysée, Paris. A pair of monumental cast iron and gilt-bronze eighteen-light figural torcheres, by Alexandre Durenne, Paris, second half of the 19th century
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