Chandelier
Category
Fixtures and fittings
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
Wood, Plastic, Giltwood
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Blewcoat School, London
NT 1650001
Summary
A Regency style painted and parcel gilt carved wood twenty branch chandelier. Cream painted overall with gilt highlights, with ten s-scroll branches in the upper tier, above ten further larger branches in a lower tier. United by a fluted column and terminating to the underside with a gilded finial with an egg and dart border above an acanthus clasped bell and a spherical knop to the bottom. Wired for electricity and fitted with imitation candle electric lights.
Provenance
Acquired from Bruern Abbey , Oxfordshire in 1974 as "eighteenth century wooden chandelier".