Antique Bronze Grand Tour Double Snouted Byzantine Oil Lamp.
R 1,250
A rare antique solid bronze Grand Tour double-snouted lamp in the Byzantine style. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank. On these trips they would acquire artefacts as souvenirs to take back home. This rare double-snouted example is in the Byzantine style which enjoyed a revival in the 19th Century.
Size : 10.5 x 8 cm