An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture There once was an old

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the whole in working order and surviving from the latter part of Victorian period England

with brass meridian circle and finial standing on the original turned ebonised base

An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture There once was an oldOrigin: 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