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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND ROCK CRYSTAL EIGHTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
The crown with six paterae suspending chainlinks enclosing square beads, the shaft with variously shaped and cut balusters centering sphere and issuing an upper tier of six scrolling foliate arms and a lower tier of six arms, each outscrolling to two twist-fluted and acanthus-cast lights with beaded drip pans and gadrooned baluster-shaped bobêches linked by chains of beads and suspending tear-shaped prisms, the pine cone finial suspending a ball (some damage to rock crystal, restorations) - 46in. (117cm.) height approximately, 36in. (92cm.) diameter
The crown with six paterae suspending chainlinks enclosing square beads, the shaft with variously shaped and cut balusters centering sphere and issuing an upper tier of six scrolling foliate arms and a lower tier of six arms, each outscrolling to two twist-fluted and acanthus-cast lights with beaded drip pans and gadrooned baluster-shaped bobêches linked by chains of beads and suspending tear-shaped prisms, the pine cone finial suspending a ball (some damage to rock crystal, restorations) - 46in. (117cm.) height approximately, 36in. (92cm.) diameter