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A NORTH ITALIAN GREEN AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TOLE PEINTE AND PAINTED WOOD FIFTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER

PIEDMONT, PROBABLY LATE 18TH 19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN GREEN AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TOLE PEINTE AND PAINTED WOOD FIFTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
PIEDMONT, PROBABLY LATE 18TH 19TH CENTURY
The pear shaped-cage with two tiers of lights emerging from shaped foliate and floral branches surmounted by conforming entwined floral branches to the upper side, the shaped nozzles with tole peinte drip- pans, some downswept branches lacking decorative elements
33½ in. (85 cm.) diam.; 47½ in. (121 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A related model formerly in the P. Accorsi collection in Moncalieri is illustrated in E. Quaglino, Il Piemonte, Milan, 1966, p. 141; while a quantity of related 18th Century tole chandeliers were exhibited in the Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, Turin, in 1963, see exhibition catalogue, pls. 290, 291, 292, 294 and 295.

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