Attributed to BACCARAT, Large blue-tinted translucent and opaline crystal chandelier with eight arms of light adorned with pendants. Romantic period. Height 85 cm. Diam. 65 cm. Six pendants are unhooked as follows: one at the cup containing the light arms, one in the upper corolla, one at a cup at the end of the light arms and three at the cup receiving the ends of the arms. Later electrically mounted.

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