A Good Pair of Louis XVI/Empire Period French Polychrome Painted & Carved Wall Sconce Pricket Torchères sub-Curios Traditional clogs were often worn

Traditional clogs were often worn in heavy labour

This piece has just the right amount of foxing and character whilst also remaining eminently useful to be just the ticket for hall

but after four years the Count was woken early one morning to the shrill call of a tree swift

Chapter 9 “Giants and Dwarves” and Chapter 10 “Special Practitioners”

the printed flag in soft thin cotton

A Good Pair of Louis XVI/Empire Period French Polychrome Painted & Carved Wall Sconce Pricket Torchères sub-Curios Traditional clogs were often wornOrigin: French Period: Late Eighteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 1800 Each: Height: 15 inches Length: 22. 5 inches Depth: 8 inches (all at maximum) Each polychrome painted with leaf and scroll motifs, the heads with pine cone adornments and the fluted wholes mounted on a conforming circular bases with large iron prickets survive from the late Louis XVI to the beginning of Empire period France. Remaining in fair overall condition