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A Pair of Ormolu and Cut Glass Lusters (c. 1785 England)

Country of Origin

England

Dated

c. 1785

Dimensions

14.50inch wide   26.40inch high
(36.83 cm wide  67.06 cm high)

Condition

Condition report on request.


Description / Expertise

A pair of Adam style girandoles or lustres on ormolu bases and dark blue rectangular pedestals. Each pedestal is decorated with four blue and white Wedgwood plaques of muses and putti, above which is a glass container from which comes a central notched spire and five arms.

Two of the arms are central arms with van Dyck nozzles and pans hung with pear drops. There is a central snake arm hung with a festoon reaching to underneath the pans.

At the rear are two curled snake arms with circular drop pendants within curl and a festoon leading up to the canopy over the spire. This canopy is also decorated with pear drops and is surmounted by a central urn.