IMPORTANT PAIR OF TORCH HOLDERS Italy, circa 1780 STANDING... Lot 1

IMPORTANT PAIR OF TORCH HOLDERS Italy, circa 1780 STANDING LOVES SYMBOLIZING SUMMER AND AUTUMN ON A BASE WITH A FRIEZE OF POSTS Gilded carved wood. H. 186 cm Base. 43 cm x 43,5 cm Chips and missing gilding. For one (the summer), accident to the laurel garland. Small stuccoed restorations. - Love with a sheaf of wheat for the Summer. - Bacchus as a child, dressed in a lion skin and topped with bunches of grapes for the Fall. Fluted column base with a laurel garland held by three strong rings. The base is frieze of flutes, gadroons and grooves. On the base where is the love are carved, for one a sickle and a pair of scissors, for the other. These two important sculptures must have been originally four in number. A PAIR OF LARGE ITALIAN GILT-WOOD CANDLE-STANDS, CIRCA 1780 STANDING CHERUBS, SYMBOLIZING SUMMER AND AUTUMN SEASONS, PEDESTAL DECORATED WITH A VITRUVIAN SCROLL H. 73,2 in. Base. 17 in. x 17 in. Chips and losses in gilding. For one (Summer), a damaged tassel on the laurel wreath. Small restorations of the gesso. Expert : Patrick de BUTTET I patrick.de-buttet557@orange.fr