A PARIS PORCELAIN SAXON-PATTERNED FLORAL CHANDELIER, Rue de la Boule rouge, Jules Viallate factory, gilt and painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief in a florid rococo revival style, overall applied with botanical flowerheads and leaves, the central lighting-fixture modelled as a heavily ornamented hanging pillar, the lower part modelled as an ajour basket adorned with flowers, above a hanging globular floral fixture, a wooden segment above the basket pierced with holes for six separate arms modelled as scrolling branches, a drippan to each extremity, a second globular part containing a wooden segment pierced with holes for six separate arms en suite to the preceding, the inside of the basket marked with a six-spoked star above pseudo-Meissen crossed swords (some damages), after 1876
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A PARIS PORCELAIN SAXON-PATTERNED FLORAL CHANDELIER, Rue de la Boule rouge, Jules Viallate factory, gilt and painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief in a florid rococo revival style, overall applied with botanical flowerheads and leaves, the central lighting-fixture modelled as a heavily ornamented hanging pillar, the lower part modelled as an ajour basket adorned with flowers, above a hanging globular floral fixture, a wooden segment above the basket pierced with holes for six separate arms modelled as scrolling branches, a drippan to each extremity, a second globular part containing a wooden segment pierced with holes for six separate arms en suite to the preceding, the inside of the basket marked with a six-spoked star above pseudo-Meissen crossed swords (some damages), after 1876 circa 95 cm high
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L. Danckert, Directory p. 356 for this peculiar mark according to 'Tardy 75'
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