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





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Antique Florentine bronze chandelier with an ormolu gold finish, dating from 1850–1900, 100 cm high with a 65 cm width and depth, model Araña Florentina made in Italy, 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 palace-style 19th-century key. A large-format chandelier, conceived to occupy the center of a noble salon, where the light not only illuminates but stages. The metal appears coated with an ormolu gold bath, that deep and warm gold that does not shine ostentatiously, but with the aristocratic patina of objects meant to endure for generations.
The design unfolds in an interlacing of leaves, fruits, scrolls and sinuous stems, a fully Florentine vocabulary that, however, incorporates a mythological air: the curves recall living vines, cornucopias, motifs that could support winged creatures or bronze nymphs. The structure is organized in two levels of arms, each topped with electric candleholders that preserve the form of an antique candle, reinforcing the sense of historical authenticity.
The piece shows the kind of controlled exuberance that characterizes the Florentine style of the 19th century: abundant ornamentation, but always balanced; movement, but without losing symmetry; luxury, but without tipping into the grotesque. The gold, softly worn in some spots, reveals marks of time that do not diminish beauty but add truth: small shadows, slight losses of luster, signs that this lamp has lived in a Madrid palace, accompanying generations and styles.
It is a piece that still commands presence today: majestic, warm, enveloping, capable of transforming any room into a stage.
Certified shipping and careful packaging.
Seller's Story
It is a lamp that carries with it all the theatricality of great Florentine decorative art reinterpreted in a Madrid palace-style 19th-century key. A large-format chandelier, conceived to occupy the center of a noble salon, where the light not only illuminates but stages. The metal appears coated with an ormolu gold bath, that deep and warm gold that does not shine ostentatiously, but with the aristocratic patina of objects meant to endure for generations.
The design unfolds in an interlacing of leaves, fruits, scrolls and sinuous stems, a fully Florentine vocabulary that, however, incorporates a mythological air: the curves recall living vines, cornucopias, motifs that could support winged creatures or bronze nymphs. The structure is organized in two levels of arms, each topped with electric candleholders that preserve the form of an antique candle, reinforcing the sense of historical authenticity.
The piece shows the kind of controlled exuberance that characterizes the Florentine style of the 19th century: abundant ornamentation, but always balanced; movement, but without losing symmetry; luxury, but without tipping into the grotesque. The gold, softly worn in some spots, reveals marks of time that do not diminish beauty but add truth: small shadows, slight losses of luster, signs that this lamp has lived in a Madrid palace, accompanying generations and styles.
It is a piece that still commands presence today: majestic, warm, enveloping, capable of transforming any room into a stage.
Certified shipping and careful packaging.

