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AN IMPORTANT HONDURAS MAHOGANY, EBONY AND GLASS CHANDELIER DESIGNED BY GREENE & GREENE, CIRCA 1907, EXECUTED IN THE WORKSHOPS OF PETER HALL AND EMIL LANGE FOR THE DINING ROOM OF THE ROBERT R. BLACKER HOUSE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
The ceiling panel of stepped and overlapping plates of mahogany with 'cloud lift' ends further joined to a rectangular panel, the four braces supporting mahogany quatrefoil devices suspended by leather in decreasing size and attached to the ebony pegged light box featuring pierced sides, the base of leaded glass with interlaced design in the panels, the repeated quatrefoil motif (raised) by plating at their juncture, the glass of iridescent golden hues ranging to umbers and tortoise shell effects--the ceiling plate: 81 1/2 x 71in. (207 x 180.3cm.); the suspended light box: 44 3/4 x 33 x 8 3/4in. deep (113.7 x 83.8 x 22.2cm.); as presently suspended: 48in. (121.9cm.) high
The ceiling panel of stepped and overlapping plates of mahogany with 'cloud lift' ends further joined to a rectangular panel, the four braces supporting mahogany quatrefoil devices suspended by leather in decreasing size and attached to the ebony pegged light box featuring pierced sides, the base of leaded glass with interlaced design in the panels, the repeated quatrefoil motif (raised) by plating at their juncture, the glass of iridescent golden hues ranging to umbers and tortoise shell effects--the ceiling plate: 81 1/2 x 71in. (207 x 180.3cm.); the suspended light box: 44 3/4 x 33 x 8 3/4in. deep (113.7 x 83.8 x 22.2cm.); as presently suspended: 48in. (121.9cm.) high
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Randell L. Makinson, Greene & Greene, Architecture as a Fine Art, Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara, 1977, p. 154 for an illustration of the lighting fixture in situ; Randell L. Makinson, Greene & Greene, Furniture and Related Designs, Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara, 1979, p. 67; and Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1985, p. 152 where Crawford recounts Ashbee's journal of 1904 chronicling his visit with the Greene's in Pasadena "Ashbee saw 'beautiful cabinets and chairs of walnut and lignum vitae, exquisite dowelling and pegging' and in all a supreme feeling for the material, quite up to our best English craftsmanship... I have not felt so at home in any workshop on this side of the Atlantic..."