Dutch style chandelier in Imari porcelain and gilt bronze, circa 1900

Dutch style chandelier with six lights in Imari porcelain and gilt bronze mount. Lighting with five fires on five arm lights.
Shaft constituted with two balusters topped by a porcelain cup with a red and blue Imari decor, decorated with flowers and foliage in cartouches.
Gilt bronze mounts decorated with acanthus leaves, gadroons and fleur-de-lis between balusters on which five wounded arm lights, decorated with a lion head holding in its mouth a ring with a porcelain ball finished by a gilt bronze spinning top, come to fix on it.
Porcelain cup topped by a bronze bobeche crowned by a glass part.
Sphere shaped Imari porcelain bottom. Central gilt bronze mount with a decor of palm leaves and fleur-de-lis, finished by a mount with a decor of stylized foliage and a twisted ring where a similar porcelain acorn hangs.

Work realized circa 1900.

Electric system has to be reviewed.

Dimensions : H 105 x D 55 cm.

Reference : LS3767651

Imari is a place of production of Japanese ceramics, otherwise known as “Arita porcelain”. It is the port of an island. Imari porcelain was first exhibited by the Dutch, with their Compagnie Orientale des Provinces-Unies (the V.O.C). These are Europeanized decorations but remaining very inspired by the great traditions of Asian spirituality. The Imari style is characterized by three dominant colors: cobalt blue, red tending to saffron and the white background of porcelain. Imari porcelain had a notable influence on the East India Company (Chinese Imari is referred to as East India Company porcelain), Delft earthenware, Dresden porcelain and the Meissen manufactory and even on 20th century Limoges porcelain.