WEDGWOOD CHANDELIER

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$19,500.00

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A RECENT ESTATE ACQUISITION. THIS BEAUTIFUL AND VERY RARE PIECE HAS THE MANUFACTURER'S MARKS AND DATE MARKS ON THE STONEWARE AND THE BRASS. IN A 1997 LETTER TO THE FORMER OWNERS, THE WEDGWOOD MUSEUM IN BARLASTON STOKES-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND, CONFIRMS THE POVENANCE AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF MANUFACTURER(1880. THEY ALSO IDENTIFIED SEVERAL OF THE BAS-RELIEF FIGURES AS THE NINE MUSES AND THE SORCERESS MEDUSA. THE WEDGWOOD MARK ON THE CEILING ROSE INDICATES AN ACTUAL MANUFACTURE DATE OF 1870. FAMILY LORE SAID THAT THE PIECE WAS ORIGINALLY LIT BY CANDLES, CONVERTED TO GAS AND FINALLY ELECTRIFIED. WHILE CLEANING THE PIECE, WE FOUND SEVERAL BITS OF WAX IN THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF THE BRASS! IN THE BAS-RELIEF SCENES ON THE CEILING ROSE THERE ARE TWO VERY SMALL PIECES OF THE BAS-RELIEF MISSING. IT IS OTHERWISE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND WE HAVE DONE NOTHING TO ALTER THE WONDERFUL AGED PATINA OF THE BRASS.