This 6-light semi-flush ceiling mount has the typical density and richness of the crystal lustres installed in the mid-17th century in France. They would become world-famous and be regarded as templates for reproduction pieces to our time. The combining of a variety of prism shapes had originated a half-century earlier in Italy, but Baroque France was more generous in the number of prisms hung and projected the desired fantasy of prismatic colors. Another French Baroque characteristic is the split socket, here cleverly formed into anthemion, which facilitates the insertion and removal of a candle.