Object Description
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Cut-Glass Ten-Light Tent and Bag Chandelier.
French, Circa 1900.
This impressive chandelier has a gilt-bronze crown cast with anthemions suspending chains of cut-glass beads to a gilt-bronze gallery cast with flowerheads and issuing ten candle arms each hung with icicle and facted pear shaped drops. The gallery is fitted with further beaded chains to form a basket beneath terminating in a gilt-bronze foliate boss suspending a faceted cut ball.
Weight 28kg / 61.7lbs.