Chandelier

Clark, Coit and Cargill

ca. 1845 · Bronze · The American Wing

This chandelier with four burners and an urn-shaped oil reservoir is one of the few surviving examples documented to a New York retailer. Thomas Webster illustrates a closely related example, which he calls a "suspended Argand lamp," in his "Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy" (1845), describing "the chains very ornamental, and the branches concealed by very rich brass work."

Artist

Clark, Coit and Cargill

Date

ca. 1845

Medium

Bronze

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1967