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






Holds bachelor's degrees in Law and Art History with an Ecole du Louvre auctioneer diploma.
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Description from the seller
It is a lamp that carries with it all the theatricality of the grand Florentine decorative art, reinterpreted in a Madrid palace-style of the 19th century. A large-format chandelier, conceived to occupy the center of a noble salon, where light not only illuminates but stages. The metal appears covered with an ormolu gold bath, that deep and warm gold that does not gleam ostentatiously, but with the aristocratic patina of objects made to endure for generations.
The design is articulated in a lattice 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 crowned by electric candleholders that retain the shape of an old 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 falling into the grotesque. The gold, softly worn in some spots, reveals signs of time that do not diminish beauty, but add truth: small shadows, slight losses of luster, indications that this lamp has lived in a Madrid palace, accompanying generations and styles.
It is a piece that today continues to impose presence: majestic, warm, enveloping, capable of transforming any room into a stage.
Tracked shipment and careful packaging.
Seller's Story
It is a lamp that carries with it all the theatricality of the grand Florentine decorative art, reinterpreted in a Madrid palace-style of the 19th century. A large-format chandelier, conceived to occupy the center of a noble salon, where light not only illuminates but stages. The metal appears covered with an ormolu gold bath, that deep and warm gold that does not gleam ostentatiously, but with the aristocratic patina of objects made to endure for generations.
The design is articulated in a lattice 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 crowned by electric candleholders that retain the shape of an old 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 falling into the grotesque. The gold, softly worn in some spots, reveals signs of time that do not diminish beauty, but add truth: small shadows, slight losses of luster, indications that this lamp has lived in a Madrid palace, accompanying generations and styles.
It is a piece that today continues to impose presence: majestic, warm, enveloping, capable of transforming any room into a stage.
Tracked shipment and careful packaging.
