Lot Essay
cf. Joanne C. Grant, The Painted Lamps of Handel, New York: Commercial Offset Printers, 1978, p.91 for an illustration of a similar model
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A HANDEL PAINTED GLASS AND GILT-METAL CHANDELIER, the spherical etched iridescent shade painted with large cobalt blue parrots perched in green and rust branches against a cream background, the parrots with reverse painting, supported by a gilt-metal mount, the shade signed 'HANDEL 6996'--33 in. (84 cm.) high, 10 in. (25.5 cm.) diameter of shade