This marvellous pair of Empire style chandeliers, wrought from ormolu and tôle peinte, is designed to resemble the heavens, the dark metallic sphere of each studded with stars.
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The chandeliers in this pair are wrought from ormolu (gilt bronze) and tôle peinte, or painted metal, in the exuberant Empire style.
Each chandelier is formed of a black tôle peinte sphere, which, being studded with many ormolu five-point stars, functions as a celestial globe, designed to resemble the nocturnal heavens. The sphere is encompassed at its centre by an ormolu meridian, which issues nine ormolu branches—each branch cast in the form of a swan, with the swan’s bill holding the drip tray and candle holder. The sphere is appended above with a pineapple finial and below with a larger pineapple pendant finial.
Each sphere is suspended by four ornate ormolu chains from an upper ormolu mount. This mount is ringed by a corona of enlarged anthemia and affixed to its underside with a series of pendant finials.
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