Sale 9614
New York
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29 - 30 March 2001
Price realised
USD 18,800
Estimate
A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU AND BLEU CELESTE TOLE SIX-LIGHT CHANDELIERS Late 20th Century Each star-studded spherical body with band to the hemisphere suspended by chains issuing swan arms with leaf tip-cast drip-pans and waisted bobèches, hanging from a band-corona issuing six upspringing anthemion and acanthus-cast uprights, suspending a vestigial pine cone finial, drilled for electricity 42½in. (108cm.) high, 33in. (84cm.) diameter (2)
Provenance
Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 18 June 1999, lot 155 (FF 224,250).
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