A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE BRONZE PATINATED AND GILT NINE LIGHT CHANDELIERS, 20th century

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE BRONZE PATINATED AND GILT NINE LIGHT CHANDELIERS, 20th century

The spherical bodies applied with stellar motifs and with stiff-leaf wrapped pineapple finials and terminals, the engine milled circlets issuing branches modelled as swans in flight supporting campana-shaped candle sockets and dished drip pans within their beaks, the chain suspensions rising to circular coronas with palmette surmounts
26in. (66cm) high (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Ottomeyer and Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Klinkhardt & Biermann, München, 1986. A chandelier of similar design is illustrated Pl.5.11.5. P359.

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