1920's Antique Italian Marble 66" Tall BACCHUS Floor Lamp




ART NOUVEAU-Modernism

Price: 

$3,800

Sale Price: 

$2,400
Specifications
Designer/Artist
Designer VerificationNone
Condition
Very Good. Some minor chips and scratches to pedestal base.
Reference
MPD-006491
Measures (Inches)
- Height: 66.75 - Width: 13
Description

 

Impressive Italian figural marble and alabaster art nouveau torchiere lamp and pedestal with illegible signature. Item features a carved marble and alabaster Bacchus figure sitting on a wine barrel, hugging a street lamp ladened with grapes with an illuminating single socket shade. The lamp rests on a  carved marble pedestal base with stepped designs and grey veins. Lamp is signed on the base.

Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth.

Overall height is 66.75". Lamp alone measures 24.5", with a 13" diameter shade and a 9" diameter base. . The base has a 12" hexagon base and a 10" diameter top.