Hanging lamp - Florentine Spider - 100 cm - Bronze - Palatial in ormolu





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Antique Florentine bronze chandelier, 1850–1900, finished in ormolu gold with a neoclassical Florentine design, 100 cm high and 65 cm wide and deep, Italian origin, in good used condition and in working order.
Description from the seller
It is a lamp that carries with it all the theatricality of great Florentine decorative art reinterpreted in a Madrid palatial XIX-century key. A grand chandelier designed to occupy the center of a noble salon, where light not only illuminates but stages. The metal appears coated with ormolu gold, that deep, warm gold that does not shine ostentatiously, but with the aristocratic patina of objects meant to endure for generations.
The design is articulated through a lattice of leaves, fruits, scrolls and sinuous stems, a fully Florentine vocabulary that, however, incorporates a mythological air: the curves recall living tendrils, horn-of-plenty motifs, or figures that could support bronze winged creatures or nymphs. The structure is organized into two levels of arms, each ending in electric candleholders that preserve the form of an old candle, reinforcing the sense of historical authenticity.
The piece exhibits the kind of controlled exuberance that characterizes the Florentine style of the XIX century: abundant ornamentation, but always balanced; movement, but without losing symmetry; luxury, but without slipping into the grotesque. The gold is softly worn in places, revealing marks of time that do not diminish beauty, but rather add truth: small shadows, slight loss of luster, signs that this lamp has lived in a Madrid palace, accompanying generations and styles.
It is a piece that still imposes presence today: majestic, warm, enveloping, capable of transforming any room into a stage.
Tracked shipping and careful packaging.
Seller's Story
Translated by Google TranslateIt is a lamp that carries with it all the theatricality of great Florentine decorative art reinterpreted in a Madrid palatial XIX-century key. A grand chandelier designed to occupy the center of a noble salon, where light not only illuminates but stages. The metal appears coated with ormolu gold, that deep, warm gold that does not shine ostentatiously, but with the aristocratic patina of objects meant to endure for generations.
The design is articulated through a lattice of leaves, fruits, scrolls and sinuous stems, a fully Florentine vocabulary that, however, incorporates a mythological air: the curves recall living tendrils, horn-of-plenty motifs, or figures that could support bronze winged creatures or nymphs. The structure is organized into two levels of arms, each ending in electric candleholders that preserve the form of an old candle, reinforcing the sense of historical authenticity.
The piece exhibits the kind of controlled exuberance that characterizes the Florentine style of the XIX century: abundant ornamentation, but always balanced; movement, but without losing symmetry; luxury, but without slipping into the grotesque. The gold is softly worn in places, revealing marks of time that do not diminish beauty, but rather add truth: small shadows, slight loss of luster, signs that this lamp has lived in a Madrid palace, accompanying generations and styles.
It is a piece that still imposes presence today: majestic, warm, enveloping, capable of transforming any room into a stage.
Tracked shipping and careful packaging.

