拍品 66
66
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE LAMPS in the form of winged chimerae supporting urns with scroll-handles and with foliate-mounts to front and back, on a stepped square plinth, drilled for electricity and with pleated green silk shades

细节
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE LAMPS in the form of winged chimerae supporting urns with scroll-handles and with foliate-mounts to front and back, on a stepped square plinth, drilled for electricity and with pleated green silk shades
18¼in. (46.5cm.) high, excluding fittings or shade (2)

拍品专文

The Grecian vases are borne by plinth-supported and acanthus-wrapped chimerical monopodiae in the form of the winged griffins that are sacred to the sun god Apollo. Related griffins featured in the ornamental pattern-book published in the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham's, Etchings representing fragments of Antique Grecian and Roman Architectural ornament chiefly collected in Italy, 1806
A pair of related griffin-supported urn lamps is displayed at Claverton Manor, Bath (see: M. Etherington-Smith, 'The American Museum in Britain', Christie's International Magazine, June 1991, vol. VIII, no. 6, p. 2)