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This item SOLD at 2007 Dec 30 @ 20:34UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
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American Rococo Revival style three piece Gilt Bronze Girandole set of the Sultana Model, attributed to Cornelius & Co., Philadelphia, c.1845 to 1861, with elaborately foliated candle-arms and rosettes, on an original marble and gilded bronze base. height 20 in., width 15 1/2 in., depth 7 in. Note: For more information on this set of period antique Girandoles see H. Parrott Bacot, Nineteenth-Century Lighting: Candle-Powered Devices, 1783-1883, West Chester, PA, 1987, p.178 fig. 247; for the exceptionally fine arms, rosettes and cups, see the identical elements of a superb pair of Washington-Franklin models in the Louisiana State University Museum, Baton Rouge, with the strongest of attributions to... the Cornelius firm of Philadelphia”, in the same source, p. 157, fig. 222, and dust-jacket cover. Condition: This is a true matched set and it retains its original patina. One of the more rare Girandole sets from this period. Some of the prisms have been replaced and there is one repair to the back of one bobeche. A tip broke off and it was re set. (We show a picture of this small repair)
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149 North Rd, East Windsor, Connecticut, United States
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