THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF DUTCH GILTWOOD FIVE-BRANCH CHANDELIERS
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with flowering basket above an interlaced C-scroll open stem with flaming urn finial issuing five husk-carved scrolled branches with drip-pans and nozzles, one arm and one boss replaced, fitted for electricity, the decoration refreshed
28 in. (71 cm.) drop; 31 in. (71 cm.) diameter, approx.

Provenance

Dealing in Excellence: A Celebration of Hotspur and Jeremy; sold Christie's, London, 20 November 2008, lot 78.

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Lot Essay

Elaborate rococo chandeliers such as the present pair are typical of those made in Holland in the 18th century. A comparable gilded limewood chandelier is in the Rijksmuseum, in the style of the Amsterdam carver Assueris van Weeghal (master sculptor in 1755), and was included in the exhibition Rococo in Nederland, Amsterdam, 2001 (see the exhibition catalogue, p. 194, no. 105) and also in the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008, New York, 2008 (see R. Baarsen, 'Rococo in Holland', Rococo: The Continuing Curve, New York, 2008, pp. 154-156, fig. 8).
Such chandeliers had previously been thought to be English in manufacture and one is illustrated in F. Lenygon (M. Jourdain writing under a pseudonym), Decoration in England 1660-1770, London, 1914, p. 284, fig. 347.

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