Live Auction 2350500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
A FRENCH ORMOLU SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
Lot 464

A FRENCH ORMOLU SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER

AFTER JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed22 October 2010

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A FRENCH ORMOLU SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
AFTER JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With central scrolled cage enclosing a flower-filled vase, issuing acanthus-sheathed branches
40½ in. (103 cm.) high, 37 in. (94 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

See P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, Vol. III, London, 1996, p. 1311, cat. no. 265 (F83) for a very similar but not identical chandelier by Caffieri, engraved Caffieri/A Paris/1751.