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The present chandelier is based around the design of Caffiéri's chandelier, currently hanging in the Bibliothéque Mazarine, Paris.
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A FRENCH LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU NINE LIGHT CHANDELIER, after a model by Jaques Caffi©ri, early 20th century
The trifrucating and scrolling branches cast with leafy ornament, supporting tiered candle sockets and drip pans, issuing from an open baluster-shaped column of tripartite section, the lower tier centred by a gadrooned urn flanked by floral sprays, the frame cast with futher foliate and floral ornament with scalloped crestings below a conforming corona
37½in. (95cm) high
The trifrucating and scrolling branches cast with leafy ornament, supporting tiered candle sockets and drip pans, issuing from an open baluster-shaped column of tripartite section, the lower tier centred by a gadrooned urn flanked by floral sprays, the frame cast with futher foliate and floral ornament with scalloped crestings below a conforming corona
37½in. (95cm) high