Live Auction 2695The Opulent Eye
A LARGE FRENCH CAST-IRON FIGURAL TORCHERE
Lot 213 PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION OF GARDEN STATUARY AND ORNAMENT PART II

A LARGE FRENCH CAST-IRON FIGURAL TORCHERE

CAST BY VAL D'OSNE FROM A MODEL BY MATHURIN MOREAU, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed18 April 2013

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A LARGE FRENCH CAST-IRON FIGURAL TORCHERE
CAST BY VAL D'OSNE FROM A MODEL BY MATHURIN MOREAU, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Stamped VAL D'OSNE
68¾ in. (175 cm.) high

Specialist note

An engraving of the present model and its companion figure, titled Egyptienne and Négresse respectively, is illustrated J. Renard, L'Age de la Fonte: un art, une industrie 1800-1914, Paris, 1985, p. 126.