A Swedish Neoclassical Ormolu and cut-glass sixteen light chandelier late 18th century

with a faceted rounded finial issuing drops, above a circular corona decorated with drops and issuing four chains decorated with similar drops, supporting a circular ring with eight two-branch candle arms interspersed with cut-glass obelisks, each issuing ormolu arms decorated with cut-glass stars, centered by eight graduated tier standard and a large fasceted sphere.

Some chips to the drops, with very few losses. The eight-tiered standard is loose and off center, and would need to be firmly attached. MInor marks and rubbing to the ormolu. Further chips to the obelisks, and restorations to the large fasceted sphere which shows evidence of previous breakage. In otherwise good condition.
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Two identical sixteen-light chandeliers with glass spheres and graduated tiers are preserved in the Mirror Salon of King Gustaf III's Haga Palace and are illustrated in Håkan Groth, Neoclassicism in the North, New York, 1990, p. 90, pl. 68. Two other very similar chandeliers are in the Dining Room of the palace and illustrated ibid., p. 91, pl. 71, as well as another set of eight-light chandeliers in the Pompeian Grand Salon, ibid., p. 90, pl. 68.