A FROSTED GLASS AND WROUGHT-IRON CHANDELIER

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A FROSTED GLASS AND WROUGHT-IRON CHANDELIER
BY LOUIS SOGNOT, CIRCA 1925

The two-tiered chandelier composed of twenty-four angled lozenge-shaped glass panels arranged in a radiating pattern, connected by wrought-iron arms secured by small spheres--14in. (35.6cm.) high, 31½in. (80cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

cf. Maurice Dufrene, Art Deco Interiors from the 1925 Paris Exhibition, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, England, 1989, p. 106, plate 42 illustrates this model chandelier in the Primavera Pavilion in a bedroom interior by Louis Sorel; see also Gabriel Mourey, L'Art Francais, Tome III- L'Art Decoratif, p. 289 for an illustration of this model