A Northern European Baroque Style Wrought Iron Eight-Light Chandelier, 19th Century

Aalholm Castle, Nyland, Denmark

Aalhom Castle, on the south shore of Denmark's Lolland Island in the Baltic Sea, is first mentioned in the fourteenth century and was recorded as complete in 1585, with further campaigns of rebuilding in 1768 and 1889. It was originally part of the Danish Crown Estate and intended as a seat for the king's vassal or lensmand in the region, but the Crown sold the property in 1725 to the Raben-Levetzau family who owned the castle until 1995.

The Blumka Gallery was founded in Vienna in the nineteenth century and transferred to New York in 1939. It has long been one of the world's leading galleries of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque scultpture and works or art and has sold to leading collectors and institutions, among them the Metropolitan Museum, Louvre, Rijksmuseum, the Frick Collection and the Getty Museum. Now run by a fourth-generation member of the Blumka Family, the gallery is relocating to new premises in Manhattan and has decided to offer several works of furniture no longer required in their new space.