A Pair of Late Victorian Ebonised Torchère Stands c.1880 sub-Architectural & Garden the female representing yin and

the female representing yin and the male yang

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A Pair of Late Victorian Ebonised Torchère Stands c.1880 sub-Architectural & Garden the female representing yin andOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Heights: 42. 25 The Bases: 12 square The Tops: 7. 25 display platforms to 10 the wholes The late Victorian period ebonised sculpture or torchre stand columns having stepped square platform tops on well turned baluster tapering columns to turned circular lowers and then to square plinth bases surviving from the last quarter of nineteenth century England. The stands are in very