Lot 435
A Very Fine Five-Light Gilt Bronze Girandole of the 'Sultana' Model, attributed to Cornelius & Co., Philadelphia, c. 1840-1860, with elaborately foliated candle-arms and rosettes, on an original marble and gilded bronze base, hung with spearpoint prisms from doubled octagonal crystal buttons (several missing or replaced), height 20 in. width 15.5 in., depth 7 in. E500-700 Note: For the figural model, 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.
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