AN IMPORTANT EMPIRE GILTWOOD AND GILT METAL CHANDELIER
| Whilst this extraordinary chandelier certainly bears close comparison with an example of 1802 by Thomas Hope (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 1975.1.2494) -a giltwood and gilt metal tour-de-force adorned with sconces on gryphons' heads around an anthemia embellished circlet; and also with an even more extravagant twelve light chandelier by Gérard Jean Galle, slightly later and also ornamented with gryphons supporting sconces, (the Getty Museum, accession no: |
73.DH.76), it is actually more likely to be of Austrian origin. Direct correlation can be seen in an example sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 20th May 2016, lot 1071, and at Christie's London, Bartolozzi, Florence, Four Generations of Antiquari since 1887, 14th November 2013, lot 307 |
| Estimate: |
£15,000 - £25,000
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Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
circa 1820, the fluted urn sockets and drip pans arranged on the heads of gryphons, with feathered and pierced wings extended, issuing between stars from inverted flower heads beneath a circlet, with twenty four oak sprig finials above an inverted shallow domed underside, adorned with flowers and foliage in low relief around a pineapple terminal; the shaft above issuing four tiers of foliate fronds to a pineapple finial; the whole suspended by three gilt metal chains from a tasselled and braided giltwood ceiling fitment, 114cm high to the giltwood ceiling fitment x 108cm diam.
Provenance: Acquired for the house in the 1930's or purchased with the house
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