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Sat, Jul 20, 2019 09:00AM EDT
Lot 942

Two Vieux Paris Gilt Porcelain Urn Lamps

Estimate: $600 - $900

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French, late 18th/early 19th century, each hand painted en grisaille, single electric socket, comprising: paneled example, boar hunt decoration, signed "M", modern painted wood plinth, to socket 20-1/2 in.; later example, Martin Luther portrait (German, 1483-1586), apparently unsigned, gilt wooden plinth, to socket 24 in., Provenance: Collection of Stephanie Edgar and William B. Reeves, Atlanta, Georgia

Condition

each drilled and mounted as lamp, boar hunt example lacking lid, gilt retouch to rim, minor wear; Martin Luther example with heavy gilt loss, abrasions, areas of staining, illegible back panel with losses, lamps not removed from later bases for examination

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