An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture Origin: British or German

Origin: British or German

There is wear and light fading to the ebonised finish to the extremities

A curiosity of the highest wonderment

The work could be cleaned if so desired

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

An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture Origin: British or GermanOrigin: 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