PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

AN ENGLISH BRASS SIX-LIGHT CHANDELIER
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
With bulbous body and gadrooned base suspending a fish and headed by a dove with olive branch, electrified, drilled, re-polished
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high, 29½ in. (75 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired from Glenn Randall, Washington, D.C., 1987.

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Lot Essay

This chandelier is reputed to have come from a set of eight located in an English church. An identical chandelier lacking fish pull in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in P., N. and H. Schiffer, The Brass Book, Exton, PA, 1978, pg. 222.

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