Lot 196
196
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A FINE FRENCH ORMOLU SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER, after the model by André Charles Boulle, with a ribbon-tied scalloped ceiling rose and chain link suspension, the square shaped baluster surmounted by a seated winged figure holding a horn, on a sphere cast with a bacchic lion's pelt and cloud burst, above four winged cherub masks with acanthus scrolled arms, the square shaped rectangular arms cast with foliage and each with a lion mask terminal below a circular drip-pan with gadrooned edge with shaped hexagonal foliate-cast nozzle, above an oval shaped shield with foliate sprays surmounted by a crown, flanked to each side by acanthus-scrolled brackets with pendant husks with blind fret trellis pattern panels behind, below with a shell-cast shaped inset panel between acanthus terminating in a gadrooned foliate and fruit cast knop, fitted for electricity

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A FINE FRENCH ORMOLU SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER, after the model by André Charles Boulle, with a ribbon-tied scalloped ceiling rose and chain link suspension, the square shaped baluster surmounted by a seated winged figure holding a horn, on a sphere cast with a bacchic lion's pelt and cloud burst, above four winged cherub masks with acanthus scrolled arms, the square shaped rectangular arms cast with foliage and each with a lion mask terminal below a circular drip-pan with gadrooned edge with shaped hexagonal foliate-cast nozzle, above an oval shaped shield with foliate sprays surmounted by a crown, flanked to each side by acanthus-scrolled brackets with pendant husks with blind fret trellis pattern panels behind, below with a shell-cast shaped inset panel between acanthus terminating in a gadrooned foliate and fruit cast knop, fitted for electricity

46in. (117cm.) diameter; 46in. (117cm.) high (excluding suspension chain and ceiling corona)

Lot Essay

This Louis XIV 'antique'-style chandelier is surmounted by a truimphal pedestal-supported trophy of Fame astride a cherubim-supported sphere, that derives from a design by André Charles Boulle (d.1732) illustrated in his Nouveaux Desseins de Meubles de Marqueterie.

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