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Lot 445TP
A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN TWELVE LIGHT CUT GLASS CHANDELIERS in the manner of F. & C. Osler
15 – 16 February 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£18,000 - £22,000
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A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN TWELVE LIGHT CUT GLASS CHANDELIERS
in the manner of F. & C. Osler
the undulating scrolling spiral twist arms arranged in two tiers with scalloped urn nozzles and collars, issuing from slender scalloped urn and composite baluster central supports with domed scalloped canopies, all hung and strung with facetted pear shaped drops and beaded droplets and strings of facetted beads, each with a spiral twist and inverted facetted acorn knopped terminal,
130cm drop x 80cm diameter approximately (2)
the undulating scrolling spiral twist arms arranged in two tiers with scalloped urn nozzles and collars, issuing from slender scalloped urn and composite baluster central supports with domed scalloped canopies, all hung and strung with facetted pear shaped drops and beaded droplets and strings of facetted beads, each with a spiral twist and inverted facetted acorn knopped terminal,
130cm drop x 80cm diameter approximately (2)
Footnotes
F. & C. Osler of Broad Street, Birmingham was founded by Thomas Osler in 1807 and eventually became one of the largest glass manufacturers in England operating until the 1970's. They had showrooms at 44 Oxford Street in London and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, whose centerpiece was a magnificent fountain (J. P. Smith, Osler's Crystal, London, 1991) and were also represented at the Paris Exhibition of 1862. In 1848, the Prince Albert, the Prince Consort acquired at pair of Osler chandeliers which remain in the Royal collection at Osborn House, Scotland. Significant commissions for large scale chandeliers include one for the Concert Rooms of St. George's Hall, Liverpool in 1856, and another for the Mansion House, the resident of the Lord Mayor of London, in 1875.