A HIGHLY UNUSUAL VICTORIAN PERIOD LANTERN
REF: FA646
A Highly unusual Victorian lacquered brass lantern, incorporating four porcelain lithophane panels each of renowned German paintings, incased with ruby glass surrounds.
- Height 68 cm / 27"
- Width 22 cm / 8 "
- Period 1850-1899
- Year 1880
- Country England
- Literature The two panels of the child with his mother are after paintings titled the torn trousers and the first trousers respectively by Johann Hermann Kretzschmer (1811-1890). They were exhibited at the Berlin Exhibition in 1864. The image of the two ladies, one reading a letter, is after Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon's work "A letter from the field post"