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A very fine Restauration gilt and patinated bronze figural fifteen-light chandelier, of circular shape with fifteen projecting bearded male mask heads with fluted headdresses supporting foliate-wrapped vase-shaped nozzles with fluted drip-pans, the mask heads alternating with gilded rosettes and surmounting foliate scrolls and a pinecone finial, the main ring with a lotus-leaf band over an acanthus and pendant finial, hung from four chains connecting to the upper lotus leaf corona above a scale-decorated dome with pinecone finial Paris, date circa 1820 Height 90 cm, diameter 73 cm. |