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Chandelier

Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

ca. 1800

GUSN

GUSN-2322

Description

Gray-painted inverted pear-form with mushroom-shaped top pieced at sides with three wrought iron candle arms; each candle arm with flat circular drip pan and candle cup. Hangs from a metal cap with ring.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chandeliers (hanging lights)
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
Iron
Tin
Painted
Turned
CHANDELIER

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

7 x 14 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.330

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