拍品 370
370
A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN PATINATED TORCHERES after the antique, each with a three-branch oil lamp, surmounted by a dancing figure, with stiff-leaf cast backplate and turned spreading socle, upon a turned bulbous foliate-cast capital and reeded spreading shaft, the circular foliate-cast base with tripod monopodiae, on pierced circular plinth, mid-19th Century, fitted for electricity, with a stamped ring to the underside R .B. Bell & Co. Los Angeles with inventory number B10630, and with red chalk inscription 19905 and 19234 and 149.5

细节
A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN PATINATED TORCHERES after the antique, each with a three-branch oil lamp, surmounted by a dancing figure, with stiff-leaf cast backplate and turned spreading socle, upon a turned bulbous foliate-cast capital and reeded spreading shaft, the circular foliate-cast base with tripod monopodiae, on pierced circular plinth, mid-19th Century, fitted for electricity, with a stamped ring to the underside R .B. Bell & Co. Los Angeles with inventory number B10630, and with red chalk inscription 19905 and 19234 and 149.5
81¼in. (204) high; 13in. (33cm.) diam. (2)
来源
The collection of Mr and Mrs Jack Warner.

拍品专文

These torchères, surmounted by the Dioscuri twins in their Phrygian caps, Castor and Pollux, emblematic of hospitality and the tutelary divinities of sailors, are modelled upon an antique oil-lamp which formed part of the collection of antiquities discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum and displayed in the Royal Museum at Naples. This oil-lamp was illustrated in R. Garguilo's, Raccolta de Monumenti pui interessans du Musée Royal Bourbon, Naples, 1845, vol.I, fig.98. In F. Sant'Andrea and L. Marceron's Histoire Générale de l'Art Français, Paris, 1922, vol.III, p.8, the Pompeii oil-lamp is illustrated upon the antique brazier stand that inspired the 19th Century pair of guéridons sold in these Rooms, 4 June 1992, lot 182. As with the guéridons, these torchères were almost certainly manufactured at the Chuirazzi foundry, established in Naples in 1870 by the sculptor J. Chuirazzi, and the design featured in the catalogue of J. Chuirazzi & Fils, Naples, circa 1900, figs. 163 & 185.
The popularity of the design of these torchères is indicated by the connoisseur collector Thomas Hope's illustration of a related pair of torchères flanking the chimneypiece of his 'Egyptian, Hindoo and Chinese closet' in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807, plate 10, while Franz Catel's (d.1856) portrait of Karl Friedrick Schinkel (d.1841) in Naples includes a related torchère in this interior view.