A Good French Gilt Metal Renaissance Revival Wine Cistern c.1870 sub-Religion & Relics The marriage ended in divorce

The marriage ended in divorce in 1942

The well-carved x-framed stool with turned stretcher with a naturally distressed black painted carcass having gilded highlights

but tonally rich white background

The collection of nine preserved specimens of Porifera or sponge in differing sizes collected on the beaches of Benghazi in Libya in the early par of the twentieth century

with much bitumen

A Good French Gilt Metal Renaissance Revival Wine Cistern c.1870 sub-Religion & Relics The marriage ended in divorceOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 80 Height: 14 Width: 23. 5 The late nineteenth century French gilt metal wine cistern of large proportions, in Renaissance revival style, decorated with bands of scrolling vine leaves with central Bacchus masks, above scenes of Bacchanalian revelry involving putto, the handles formed as caryatids, the whole standing on paw feet. The condition of the cistern is good overall. The patina