MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LIEGE

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A NORTH EUROPEAN CUT AND MOULDED GLASS TWELVE-LIGHT CHANDELIER
MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LIEGE
The central brass column with trefoil finial above three reticulated globes and four baluster elements, the later glass receiver dish with ormolu plate issuing the twelve branches each hung with faceted kite-shaped droplets, the branches and receiver plate number 1-12 (with 0 instead of 9), two branches replaced, the lowest globe associated and originally with a further finial, restorations and replacements
56½ in. (143.5 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

The form of the branches and nozzles and the shape of the reticulated globe finials on this chandelier associate it with chandeliers made in and around Liège in the middle of the eighteenth-century. A related example with more elaborate branches and droplets is in the dining-room of the Musée d'Ansembourg à Liège (Prof. Dr. Joseph Philippe, Le Meuble liégeois à son âge d'Or (le XVIIIe siècle), 1990, p. 10, fig. 3).

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