CA0948 Grand Tour Serpentine Marble Grotesque Mask Oil Lamp

Fascinating mid 19th century Grand Tour Renaissance style grotesque mask oil lamp in serpentine marble. Carved as a swan plucking at its breast with an exaggerated face to its back and a sea serpent head on an integral carved oval plinth. In the manner of 16th century North Italian bronze lamps, an example of which sold at Christies, London on 7th December 2006, lot 156. After the antique. Rome, circa 1850.

H 9cm x W 15.5cm x D 9cm