A very rare pair of 19th Century Italian Grand Tour patinated bronze three light candelabra in the form of ancient Roman oil lamps, after antique roman originals found at Pompeii and Herculanium and now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. In over 30 years of collecting I have seen a number of these lamps but never one adapted to form a candelabra. Typical anthemion design handle and figural finial cover in the form of a classical male running with a flaming torch. Amphora style candle holders. Single socle foot on a circular marble Marmo Rosso base. Italian, circa 1870.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the p...