Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Three tiers of graceful fountains of glass descend from the top, set off by swags of glass drops, the blown glass stems delicately engraved; gilt lower ring with six candle arms and an upper ring connected by the glass-surrounded stem and by three chains, all of metal, the lower ring supporting a blue glass disc at the base of the stem.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1795
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle
- Medium
- Glass, gilt metal
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 90 x 65 cm (35 7/16 x 25 9/16 in.)
- Type
- lighting
- Decorative Arts
- Chandelier
