Baroque style solid silver chandelier

This exceptional chandelier, designed in the exuberant Baroque style, is wrought from solid silver.

The chandelier is of traditional suspended bowl form—the bowl in this instance a weighty piece of silver issuing eight lights and cast, chased, and appended with a host of scrolling, foliate silver motifs and mounts. The bowl is suspended by four silver chains, the links ornately detailed, the chains hanging from an upper bell-shaped silver support—this support is itself exceptionally finely detailed, both externally and internally, demonstrating the supreme craftsmanship of this piece. From the silver bell support is suspended a looped silver chain, which supports a cup-form element. The entire surface of the chandelier is exceptionally detailed, from the top bell-shaped support to the pendant finial suspended beneath the bowl.

The silver is hallmarked throughout.