Chandelier

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18th century · Brass · Robert Lehman Collection

The chandelier has two series of eight S-shaped branches around a baluster stem resting on a massive globe. The branches and shaft have been correspondingly numbered from one to eight with a system of small bars arranged in two horizontal rows around the two central discs of the baluster. One of the attachment-pegs has been replaced. The slender, baluster-shaped pegs and the acorn-shaped finials are characteristics of a number of eighteenth-century chandeliers from Rotterdam.

Artist

Unknown

Date

18th century

Medium

Brass

Culture

Netherlandish, (Rotterdam?)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975