Offered by Laurent Chalvignac
A six-light chandelier composed of an amphora-shaped vase in patinated bronze, finished at the bottom with a gilded bronze seed supporting a frieze of palmettes adorned with crystal mirzas; adorned at the top with three helmeted antique-style women in gilded bronze, receiving six trunk-shaped branches forming a light fixture, adorned with crystal mirzas, themselves joined by six cut-crystal chains. The vase is linked by a central stem, adorned with six ormolu crosses, decorated with six cut-crystal almond chains, to the upper part of the bélière, decorated with six ormolu flowers and a crystal garland adorned with mirzas.
French Directoire period, late 18th / early 19th century.
Size in inches : wide 26 X height 45