A set of four Italian rococo blue glass and parcel-gilt and engraved glass girandoles, Murano

each with a stylised scallopshell cresting applied with scrolls and flowers above a female mask and a cartouche-shaped plate engraved with a male and female figure holding a bunch of grapes and two with a figure in drapery holding a lyre and flute within a ribbed border applied with flowerheads, the lower section with a foliate wrought iron candlearm

There is a very minor loss to the base of a glass scroll on the cresting. The painted decoration is worn and dirty. They are possibly a matched set as two of them with the figures with a lyre appear to be different. Some very miniscule chips and restorations which are hardly noticeable. In overall good original condition.
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Comparative Literature:
G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del '700, Gorlich, Milan, 1958, Tav CCLXII, a & b for related examples of this type of girandole.

A related pair of girandoles was sold as lot 17, in these Rooms, 28th May 2009.