Lot 1464
A 19TH CENTURY CRYSTAL SIX BRANCH CHANDELIER,
the cut glass stem in three baluster form sections with scrolling arms supporting crystal drops with floral rosettes, above the six bronze branches each with candle sconce, with a glass ball pendant, height approx. 60cm, width approx. 45cm
*Provenance: by repute this chandelier may once have been part of a set hanging in Buckingham Palace. It was sourced for the current vendor in the early 1980s by a former director of Sotheby's who was told that it was among the items removed from the much-neglected palace during Queen Victoria's widowhood and distributed or sold to members of the Royal household by King Edward VII.
In the mid-1980s, whilst working as a private historian for the Royal Family, the current vendor saw three very similar or potentially matching chandeliers were still hanging in Queen Elizabeth's private entrance hall on the North side of the Palace
