An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture The beautiful polychromed and lacquered

The beautiful polychromed and lacquered modelled figure

One wonders why the first sentence is so dramatic

There is wear and light fading to the ebonised finish to the extremities

A curiosity of the highest wonderment

Constantly in use

An Unusual Early 20thC French Naturalistic Cast Bronze & Brass Lamp as a Queen of the Night Cactus sub-Art & Sculpture The beautiful polychromed and lacqueredOrigin: French Period: Early 20thC Provenance: From the estate of the late Nellie Lenson Smith (1928 2017) Date: c. 1920 35 Height: 41. 5 Depth: 17 Width: 15. 5 (all at extremities) The good quality patinated bronze and brass table or floor lamp modelled as a large flowered Queen of the Night (Selenicereus grandifloras) cactus, having three brass spined arms flowering to the bulb apertures, on a naturalistic heavy bronze base, surviving from the