Lot 50
50
AN ORMOLU HEXAGONAL HALL-LANTERN with pierced ring suspending a removable candelabrum with four five-scroll branches, each with ring-turned drip-pans and nozzles, the ogee-domed top above six arched rectangular bombé-glazed sides, one fitted as a door, cast with trailing acanthus and foliate-sprays upon channelled foliate-cast pierced clasps and berried finials

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AN ORMOLU HEXAGONAL HALL-LANTERN with pierced ring suspending a removable candelabrum with four five-scroll branches, each with ring-turned drip-pans and nozzles, the ogee-domed top above six arched rectangular bombé-glazed sides, one fitted as a door, cast with trailing acanthus and foliate-sprays upon channelled foliate-cast pierced clasps and berried finials
17½in. (44.5cm.) diam.; 33in. (84cm.) high

Lot Essay

A pair of lanterns of this model were sold at Christie's New York, 26 April 1990, lot 52
A virtually identical hall-lantern is in the Château de Montgeoffrey, Maine-et-Loire, and is illustrated in P. Verlet. Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 1987, p.349, fig.367

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