Sale 5686
London
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31 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 17,250
Estimate
A large brass and glass chandelier Designed by Koloman Moser or Jutta Sika, the glass shades by Loetz, circa 1903 Six spherical glass shades richly decorated with regular trails of deep blue/gold lustre against a swirled pink/gold iridescent ground, screw-fitted into flat circular brass mounts with slender protruding arms, suspended from large flat circular brass ceiling mount on cords threaded with milky white glass spheres 43½in. (110.5cm.) approximate drop
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Jutta Sika was a pupil of Koloman Moser at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna from 1897 to 1902.
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