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Gas Chandelier, ca. 1870
Attributed to Mitchell, Vance and Company
American; Made in New York, New York
Gilt brass, glass; H. 68 in. (172.7 cm)
American Wing Restricted Building Fund, 1968 (68.143.5)
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Description
This twelve-branch gas-burning chandelier is original to the sitting room of the Wilcox house, which also included two matching pairs of wall sconces. The room's crowning touch, the chandelier picks up aspects of the overall Renaissance Revival design. The chandelier is exceptionally well preserved. Classical heads, like the carved mother-of-pearl medallions on the furniture, adorn the gas shut-offs. It is a typical nineteenth-century stylistic mélange, combining French motifs popular at the beginning of the eighteenth century with classical Greek and even Gothic motifs fashionable from the 1830s through the 1860s.
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