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A PAIR OF GERMAN PARCEL-GILT AND POLYCHROME DECORATED CARVED LIME AND TOLE EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIERS

SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN PARCEL-GILT AND POLYCHROME DECORATED CARVED LIME AND TOLE EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIERS
Second half 18th Century
Each with gadrooned simulated sunflower corona suspending a pierced wreath issuing simulated foliate turned nozzles and with a central baluster-turned and beaded finial on a platform with volute supports and suspending a bell, suspended with foliate branches below and a carved parrot, the finials later, minor replacements
49 in. (125 cm.) high; 36 in. (91 cm.) diameter (2)

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Lot Essay

The proportions of these fantastic chandeliers, carved with exotic birds, pagoda-like drip-pans and bells suggest that these were once created for the garden gallery or tea room of some fashionable princely residence. One such room was the Chinesische Kabinett at Schloss Fasanerie near Fulda, while drawings, dated 1823, of the wall and ceiling decoration of the speisegalerie at the nearby Residenzpalais in Kassel show similar decorative schemes with pierced pagodas and exotic birds, which might also have been lit by such chandeliers.

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