Living room lamp, angel made of carved and white lacquered wood from the Chelini Firenze factory

The salon lamp, an angel carved from and lacquered in white wood by the Chelini Firenze manufactory, established in the last decades of 1900, is in excellent condition.

The sculpture, carved in the round, depicts an angel standing upright; one hand holds the soft drapery of its robes, and the other holds a vase for an urn. The figure rests on a rectangular base; it is electrified with an E27 light bulb with a maximum power of 150 watts and is decorated with a shield-shaped shade, fan-shaped, made from refined sage-gray jacquard fabric with damask motifs from the renowned Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio in via Manzoni, Milan.

It comes from a private Milanese palace.

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