A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques The colours are still very

The colours are still very vivid and there are no holes or tears

One of the corvetto ball mounts is missing

The paint is beautifully worn and chipped in places there is evidence of an earlier layer of paint to the piece underneath the ivory top coat

a further re-modelling of the site took place

designed by the great Georges Remi Hergé

A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques The colours are still veryOrigin: Italian Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1810 Height: 24. 5 inches Width: 11. 5 inches Depth: 19 inches (all at maximum) The large and chunky polychrome painted and gilded pricket sconce formed of ancanthus leaves and scrolls, the fluted whole mounted on a conforming shield shaped base, the whole terminating in a shaped metal iron pricket and drip pan surviving from the zeniths of eighteenth