Edward F. Caldwell & Co 1851-1914 A fine and rare Renaissance style gilt, patinated and silvered bronze lantern New York, circa 1880

finely cast and chased, with foliate fruits and strapwork, the cage surrounded by six double-sided high relief busts of Renaissance nobilities; one of the bronze elements with the number 06829

For a black and white photograph, see the E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, numbered a17596, showing the same model chandelier

Overall in good, original condition. Very good presentation, finely cast, light wear and tarnishing to bronze elements.
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From its establishment in 1895, Edward F. Caldwell and Company of New York ranked among the leading American designers of light fixtures, objects of virtue, decorative works of art and often, as in the present lot, utilitarian decorative objects using expensive exotic veneers and intricate applied neo-renaissance decoration.
In the late 1880s he met his future partner, Victor F. von Lossberg. The two acquired their own foundry in 1901 at 38 West Fifteenth Street, New York.