A pair of Venetian parcel-gilt, polychrome-decorated and ebonized blackamoor torcheres
Second half 19th Century
Each modeled as a gondolier stood on the prow of his boat, paddle in one hand, holding a torch aloft in the other, on a hexagonal faux porphyry plinth applied with grotesque masks suspending laurel festoons
40¾ in. (103.5 cm.) high (2)