Lot 148
  • 148

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.