Sale 2090
New York
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22 April 2008
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOT 45)
Price realised
USD 8,125
Estimate
A SWEDISH CUT-GLASS AND ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CHANDELIER EARLY 19TH CENTURY With a ring issuing flowerheads draped with rope and pendant prisms and cascading rope chain prisms above a central husk-cast wheel issuing urn-form candle arms and palmettes loopped with rope chain and pendant prisms below a lower tier of rope prisms and a central small circle of pendant prisms surrounding a cut glass finial, eletrified, some replacements to palmettes and cut glass 42 in.(107 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) diameter
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