A Pair of Early 19thC French Polychrome Painted Eternal Flame Carvings c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture or the frame

or the frame

also being a nod to this period

it is pliable but still very useable

has a long and interesting history dating from 1804

A Pair of Early 19thC French Polychrome Painted Eternal Flame Carvings c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture or the frameOrigin: French Period: Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Each: Depth: 3. 25 Width: 8 Height: 19 The free standing French carved softwood eternal flame carvings, being flat backed and each being hand polychrome decorated with ruby red stylised flames, and distressed naturally with age, to collared black socle bases and surviving from Empire period France. The carvings have distressed paintwork and losses to the flame ends as photographed with