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A pair of gilt-bronze blue-and cut-glass girandoles in Baltic 18th century style
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- each 84cm. high; 2ft. 9in.
each in the form of a baluster vase with a leaf cast collar suspending four scrolled candlearms with leaf cast nozzles and drip-pans, supporting a cut-glass prism, surmounted by a faceted disc with four graduated tiers of sprays terminating in faceted pear shaped drops, on a trumpet foot and square veined grey marble base
Catalogue Note
Comparative Literature:
Igor Sychev, The Russian Chandelier 1760-1830, Moscow, 2003, p. 49, fig.225, for a very similar girandole dating from the late 18th century.
Igor Sychev, The Russian Chandelier 1760-1830, Moscow, 2003, p. 49, fig.225, for a very similar girandole dating from the late 18th century.