1930s Gatco Solid Indian Brass Cherub Wall Sconces with Crystal Fringe / Gothic / Altar / Candlestick / Candle / Vanity / Boudoir / Romantic

Beautiful Baroque-style cherub wall sconces for your favorite drippy candle sticks. Light patina can be found throughout. These solid brass candlestick holders feature a cherub holding up a "torch", with its based bearing a floral motif. Each sconce comes with two removable decorative crystal fringe rings that dangle around the torch base.

Superb detailing in this set, sure to add a touch of regality to any home.

Fun facts on cherubs:

A Putto is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and sometimes winged. Originally limited to profane passions in symbolism, the putto came to represent the sacred cherub (plural cherubim), and in Baroque art the putto came to represent the omnipresence of God.

A putto representing a cupid is also called an amorino (plural amorini) or amoretto (plural amoretti).

"Putti", in the ancient classical world of art, were winged infants that were believed to influence human lives. In Renaissance art, the form of the "putto" was derived in various ways including the Greek Eros or Roman Amor/Cupid, the god of love and companion of Aphrodite or Venus; the Roman, genius, a type of guardian spirit; or sometimes the Greek, daemon, a type of messenger spirit, being halfway between the realms of the human and the divine.

Measurements:

3 1/2 x 12 x 3 1/2 each
Weight: 2lb 12oz each

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