An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture the globe with unengraved brass

the globe with unengraved brass meridian half-circle raised on a baluster turned ebonised column and circular plinth base and surviving from the first quarter of the twentieth century

There are also two old brass hanging hooks where the mirror has been hung as a wall mirror

There are no stamps or markings visible verso other thank a chalk number of ‘13’

found conventionally in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

One wonders why the first sentence is so dramatic

An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture the globe with unengraved brassOrigin: French Period: Early 20thC Provenance: From the estate of the late Nellie Lenson Smith (1928 2017) Date: c. 1920 35 Height: 41. 5 Depth: 17 Width: 15. 5 (all at extremities) The good quality patinated bronze and brass table or floor lamp modelled as a large flowered Queen of the Night (Selenicereus grandifloras) cactus, having three brass spined arms flowering to the bulb apertures, on a naturalistic heavy bronze base, surviving from the