French Empire Dorè Bronze Bouiollotte Lamp.
A museum quality French Empire bronze with original gilding with crisp, sharp, detail work of the raised flowers as well as the cornucopia motif and all around magnificent French Napoleonic decorations. The original patina gilding now naturally tarnished consistent with well over 150 years of its history. The tall shade is paint decorated original black; It is vintage and proportionally correct but it is not of the same period of the gilt bronze base. Fine detail even in the hardware on the lamp as well as the finial which is a quiver of the end of an arrow which screws in and out in order to adjust the shade, a very rare option. Nice and heavy and solid. A true antique lamp well as an heirloom.
26" tall with the shade diameter being 11"