UNAPOLOGETICALLY IRIS: THE COLLECTION OF IRIS APFEL
A PAIR OF RED-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PALM TREE-FORM TORCHERES
POSSIBLY ITALIAN, 19TH/20TH CENTURY
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Price Realised USD 3,024
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USD 1,000 - USD 1,500
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A PAIR OF RED-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PALM TREE-FORM TORCHERES
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Overall in good, decorative condition, sound and ready to place. With typical scattered nicks, surface marks, scuffs and surface scratches, as to be expected. The painted and gilt decoration with lifting, flaking and scattered losses revealing plaster and bare wood. The decoration refreshed. With age and construction cracks, now somewhat visible. With minor scattered repairs, including restored breaks to feet on each example, and to the palm fronds on one example. Present well overall.
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Lot 132Sale 23911
POSSIBLY ITALIAN, 19TH/20TH CENTURYA PAIR OF RED-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PALM TREE-FORM TORCHERESEstimate: USD 1,000 - 1,500
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