Fine Pair of Well Figured French Brech Violette Marble & Gilt Bronze Electric Table Lamps, last half of the Nineteenth Century.
The main bodies of urn form with classical female faces and ornamental swags, ending on an ornate ormolu base with square marble platform with canted corners all raised on four ball feet.
Condition: Superb condition with no losses, the mounts have been professionally re-gold plated.
Height: (entire as shown) 17" (43.5cm). Width: (at base) 4.5" (11.5cm).
Pair Eur.3950.00.
Breche Violet is a very decorative Italian Marble quarried in Seravezza, Carrara Basin, located between Florence and Genoa, sometimes mistaken for Blue John Stone which is found in Derbyshire, England. Breche violet is of a basic creamy white, clouded colour with delicate tones of blue-grey, broken into irregular angular shapes by veins. The primary veins are blue-violet in colour, the secondary veins a variety of colours. The quarries were exhausted prior to 1960 so it is no longer produced, but can still be found in covering interior walls and fire surrounds (please view an attached image example) etc. of ancient European castles, hotels and affluent homes.