16TH CENTURY AND LATER, POSSIBLY LÜBECK

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A NORTH GERMAN BRASS SIX-BRANCH CHANDELIER
16th century and later, possibly Lübeck
The central baluster stem surmounted by a crowned double-headed eagle and issuing stylised dolphins and scrolling baluster-turned arms with vase-shaped nozels and circular drip-pans, terminating in a ring-bearing lion's mask boss
25 in. (64 cm.) high; 35 in. (89 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Brass chandeliers of related design survive across north Germany, with some examples featuring the same distinct ring-bearing lion's mask boss (see M. Wiswe, Hausrat aus Kupfer und Messing, Munich, 1979, ill.30 and Prof. Dr. G. Brant, Wohnräume und Möbel aus Alt-Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Berlin, 1922, p.19), while a closely related chandelier, though slightly larger and with two rather than one tier, but almost identical double-headed eagle finial, scrolling 'flat-chased' branches, baluster-turned scrolled arms and the distinct lion's mask boss hung in the choir of the Heiliger Leichnam church in Danzig, now Gdansk (G. Cuny, Danziger Barock, Frankfurt am Main, plate 17).

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