A Good Pair of Louis XVI/Empire Period French Polychrome Painted & Carved Wall Sconce Pricket Torchères sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The finely carved ivory Corpus

The finely carved ivory Corpus Christi attached to an ebonised softwood carved wooden cross beneath an inscribed INRI panel

As well as being King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms

with only minor light scratching to the perspex

“Margaret Backhouse (nee Richardson) born 1818

drones usually die upon mating or are expelled from the hive before the winter

A Good Pair of Louis XVI/Empire Period French Polychrome Painted & Carved Wall Sconce Pricket Torchères sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The finely carved ivory CorpusOrigin: 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