Silverware> 1800 > Hanging silver lamp by Luigi Conti (1810 - 1881), Udine, Italy, half of the nineteenth century.
Hanging silver lamp by Luigi Conti (1810 - 1881), Udine, Italy, half of the nineteenth century.
Description:The silver and silver gilt hanging lamp is embossed, chiseled and engraved. The vase-shaped body is crushed with sequences of bulges and taperings compared to the central part. The virtuosity of the embossed relief is most evident in the lower part of the lamp, more visible to the eyes of the beholder, decorated with cartouches and racemes of finely hammered background.
The three handles, shaped as stylized acanthus leaves, serve as a hook for the chains, formed by little balls and intersected rectangular elements.
Luigi Conti (1810 - 1881), was the silversmith who made the large Ostensory in silver gilt, chased and cast commissioned by the Empress of Austria Maria Anna Carolina in 1853. She donated it to her confessor, Giovanni Battista Gaspardo, (the Ostensory is still preserved in the parish of Codroipo). Luigi Conti made also a huge silver embossed and engraved celebratory vase, now belonging to the art collection of the Crup Foundation (Cassa di Risparmio of Udine and Pordenone).
Marks: 1) monogram LC for Luigi Conti; 2) anvil mark, 3) caduceus with snakes for Udine, 4) the silver standard mark, a globe with zodiac and the seven stars.
Weight: Kg. 1,300/41 Troy oz
Age:mid 19th century
Dimensions:height: 28 inc. with chains; 11 inc. the lamp only; diameter 6 3/4 inc.
Price: € 1.600,00
Item n°: RC 164
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