Regency style lantern, ca. 1940.

Regency style lantern, ca. 1940.
Silver plated bronze and glass.
With six-light candelabra.
Measurements: 140 x 70 cm.

Exceptional quality bronze living room lantern, based on French Regency Style models, with a six-light candelabra in its interior. The translucent glass cylinder in bronze mount is decorated with filigree scrolls and mascarons. The arms of the candelabra are carved with grooves that emulate vegetal ribs and are topped with sheathed lampshades with foliage worked in relief. Foliate motifs also decorate the base of the lantern in the manner of acanthus between flamboyant masks. A maenad mask crowns the cylinder. She wears a headdress adorned with a crown of vine leaves and bunches of grapes. She holds on her head an openwork structure with scrolls and rhinestones. The bouquets are gathered in an upper piece in the form of finely worked leaves. The predominance of sinuous forms subsumed in a meditated structure, as well as the sumptuous finishes printed on the bronze are typical of the Regency style, a transitional language between the late baroque of Louis XIV and the rococo Louis XV.