French Louis XVI Style Dore Bronze & Chinese Sang De Boeuf Porcelain Lamps, Pair

Product Description

A very fine pair of antique French Louis XVI style dore bronze and Chinese sang de boeuf porcelain vases, later mounted as lamps, attributed to Alfred Beurdeley. Each baluster form mounted with twin gilt leafy cast handles, suspending gilt drapery panel swags, mounted on a gilt guilloche molded and square base. These are a large pair of lamps and can easily be converted back to vases. The fine quality of the bronze, the chasing, and the quality of the dore bronze are the typical characteristics of the works of Alfred Beurdeley. It was very fashionable in Paris to mount very good quality Chinese Porcelains in French ormolu mounts in the early 1800s-end of the 1800s.
Porcelain, China, circa 1800-1840
Bronze mounts, France, circa 1870

Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)
Diameter: 10 in (25.4 cm)