EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU SIX-BRANCH CHANDELIER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The corona with pierced anthemion, suspending a spreading dish mounted by six masks issuing outscrolled branches, with eagle finial and terminating in a pine cone boss
32 in. (81.5 cm.) drop, approx.; 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

A distinctive feature of this chandelier is eagle with spreading wings, heading the domed circular dish, and can be found on a chandelier in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow which is illustrated in I. Sychev, Russian Bronze, Moscow, 2003, p. 95. The chandelier is similar in composition that was preserved in Anichkov palace in the dressing room of Nicholas I until the mid-19th Century, as shown in the watercolour by L. Premazzi.

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