Antique Italian Renaissance Brass Lucerne Florentine Chatelaine Oil Lamp, Circa 1860 Drawings & Prints surrounded by flowers & foliate

surrounded by flowers & foliate and interspersed with birds & butterflies

late 17th Century Florentine Baroque carving of a putto

Vinea became quite famous and wealthy in his lifetime and his work was particularly sought after in France

Lin Fengmian

the front having twin locking doors with corresponding inlay

Antique Italian Renaissance Brass Lucerne Florentine Chatelaine Oil Lamp, Circa 1860 Drawings & Prints surrounded by flowers & foliateA good 19th century Italian 'Florentine' or 'Lucerne' 4 burner brass oil lamp, in the Renaissance Revival manner, circa 1860. Designed to burn whale oil which is placed into a reservoir with a lift up cover that would have four wicks, one to each burner. The lamp having a carrying handle above a pair of screens, over the four burners is a chatelaine of tools comprising; a pair of wick nips, a bucket, a lamp snuffer and a twisted brass tool to clean