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A RARE PAIR OF NEO CLASSICAL CARVED WOOD CHANDELIERS
circa 1780

A fine and rare pair of carved wood five branch chandeliers. The central section made up of C-scrolls and festoons surmounted with baskets of flowers and terminating with classical vases and finials.

ORIGIN
According to Dr Reiner Baarsen, the Senior Curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, they are “most probably Dutch, although it is perhaps not impossible that they were made in the Southern Netherlands”.

Another almost identical chandelier is illustrated in Francis Lenygon, Decoration in England 1660-1770, fig. 347, p. 284.

Height 29in (73.5cm). Diameter 32 5/8in (83cm).

Reference:J6421

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