A pair of Empire style gilt bronze sixteen light chandeliers, of recent manufacture

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A pair of Empire style gilt bronze sixteen light chandeliers, of recent manufacture
The inverted domed wells pierced and cast with panels of rosettes and leafy ornament intersected by flambeau torches above leaf-wrapped pine cone terminals, the circlets cast with palm motifs and applied with masks of Minerva, issuing bifurcating scroll branches with eagle head terminals supporting campana shaped nozzles, the chain suspension with conforming coronas
43in. (109cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
H.Ottomeyer and P.Pruoschel Vergoldete Bronzen Munich 1986, an Empire chandelier of related design illustrated page 306.

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