Pair Antique French Sevres Porcelain Portrait Miniatures Ormolu Wall Sconces Candle Lights 1880 Sold the base with a shaped

the base with a shaped skirt

Both sides of the chest having hand-forged iron carrying handles within a deeply carved lozenge design and corresponding geometric floral devices

and the placement of the hands on the armrests gives the sitter a pose of status & formal power

Povey Brothers was known as the "Tiffany of the Northwest" and many of the company's windows still exist in historic buildings throughout the region

5" tall X 20

Pair Antique French Sevres Porcelain Portrait Miniatures Ormolu Wall Sconces Candle Lights 1880 Sold the base with a shapedSOLD A fine & large pair of antique French Sevres porcelain ormolu mounted candle wall sconce lights, mounted with portrait miniatures, circa 1880. The top of each sconce is inset with a Sevres porcelain portrait miniature of Princess Elizabeth the Sister of Louis XVI & Madame De Montesson the wife of Louis Philippe Duke of Orleans. Below each portrait is a complex ormolu 'ribbon' surmounting a large porcelain plaque, the plaques are finely painted in