Lot 98
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AN ITALIAN TEN-LIGHT GILTWOOD AND GILT-LEAD CHANDELIER
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AN ITALIAN TEN-LIGHT GILTWOOD AND GILT-LEAD CHANDELIER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NEAPOLITAN

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AN ITALIAN TEN-LIGHT GILTWOOD AND GILT-LEAD CHANDELIER
Early 19th Century, possibly Neapolitan
With three tiers, the central corona set with foliate roundels, decorated with scrolled motifs flanking palmettes and issuing S-scrolled branches, terminating in foliate nozzles and drip-pans, hung with crystal tear-drop prisms and faceted beads and terminating in a pine cone boss, the upper section with a corona set with stiff leaf and palmette mount, some restorations, replacements to the glass elements
60¼ in. (153 cm.) high; 47¼ in. (120 cm.) diameter
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Lot Essay

An unusual feature of this rich chandelier are the distinctively seperated tiers connected by chains. The palmettes in gilt-lead are also rare, and relate to Regency prototypes, such as those on a chandelier in Rosewood Plantation and Gardens, which is illustrated in H. Parrott Bacot, Nineteenth Century Lighting, Candle-powered devices: 1783-1883, West Chester, 1987, p. 240.

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