拍品 347
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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU CHANDELIER with domed lambrequin canopy adorned with vigorously scrolling acanthus-cast clasps suspending three berried laurel and ribbon-tied acanthus chains terminating in borrominesque scrolling volutes with attendant cherubs, centred by a waxed scallop and acanthus-cast dish, with tripartite C-scroll supports, the serpentine-moulded bowl supported by scrolled volutes joined by foliate swags, centred by oval panels depicting two crossed outstretched arms with a cross beyond within a C-scroll cartouche crowned by twin seraphims above a bombé serpentine with female masks above a turned finial, probably Roman, first half 18th Century, minor damages, numbered overall

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU CHANDELIER with domed lambrequin canopy adorned with vigorously scrolling acanthus-cast clasps suspending three berried laurel and ribbon-tied acanthus chains terminating in borrominesque scrolling volutes with attendant cherubs, centred by a waxed scallop and acanthus-cast dish, with tripartite C-scroll supports, the serpentine-moulded bowl supported by scrolled volutes joined by foliate swags, centred by oval panels depicting two crossed outstretched arms with a cross beyond within a C-scroll cartouche crowned by twin seraphims above a bombé serpentine with female masks above a turned finial, probably Roman, first half 18th Century, minor damages, numbered overall
approximately 27in. (68.5cm.) wide; 60in. (152.5cm.) high

拍品专文

The chandelier's moulded triangular bracket with pear-shaped finial is embellished with scrolled cartouches that are festooned with garlands tied to acanthus-scrolled corner brackets enriched with nymph-masks. It is surmounted by a scallop-rimmed sacred-run embellished with Venus' shell badges and supported on richly serpentined acanthus-scrolled feet, which are buttressed by scrolled corner brackets. Festive amorini, perched on their voluted pediments, grasp the laurel chains that are enriched with ribbon-bowed rostetes and suspended from the scallop-edged hexagonal baldaquino, whose ogival dome is similarly wrapped by acanthus foliage. The chandelier's cartouches display crossed forearms before the cross, symbolic of the Trinity, beneath cloud-borne cherubim heads. The bracket-supported urn evolved from Louis XIV chandelier patterns such as those by André-Charles Boulle (d. 1732) and illustrated in Nouveaux Deisseins de Meubles et OUvrages de bronzes..., published by Mariette circa 1700.
An urn with related scrolled supports features in a table-centre design dating from around 1730 and attributed to a Roman workshop (see: A. Gonzalez-Palacios, valadier, London, 1991, fig. 1)