A charming tôle peint 6 branch chandelier. Decorated with panels of flowers on a yellow ground framed with neo-classical motifs on a green ground with gilt enrichments.

France circa 1900.

Width 32 inches, height 24 inches.

Tôle is one of those magical materials, though delicate and charming it is still painted metal. That juxtaposition lends objects of this sort a special place where they look equally at home in an urban or a bucolic setting.