A Dutch brass two-tier sixteen-light chandelier
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A Dutch brass two-tier sixteen-light chandelier

SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A Dutch brass two-tier sixteen-light chandelier
Second half 17th Century
The multi-baluster shaft with ring suspension and terminating in a sphere and a baluster boss, each tier with eight scrolling branches, broad circular drip pans and cup-shaped nozzles, all numbered with varying amounts of dots, restorations
119cm. high and 126cm. diam.
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Lot Essay

In the 17th Century Amsterdam was the most important centre for brass-founding in the Netherlands. It is not unlikely that the present lot was made in Amsterdam. The large sphere at the base, had the purpose of balancing the chandelier and to reflect the light of the candles. A comparable sixteen-light chandelier is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and illustrated in O. ter Kuile, Koper en Brons, Amsterdam 1986, pp. 134-135, nr. 177.

B. Dubbe, 'Het Amsterdamse geelgietersambacht in de 17de eeuw', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 31(1980), pp. 137-153; C.W. Fock, 'Werkelijkheid of Schijn. Het beeld van het Hollands interieur in de zeventiende-eeuwse genreschilderkunst', Oud Holland, 112 (1998), pp. 220-225.

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