MID-19TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF RUSSIAN RHODONITE COLUMN-FORM LAMPS
MID-19TH CENTURY
Each with turned stem on canted incurved square plinth with bracket feet, electrified
36 ½ in. (92.7 cm.) high, including fitments

Provenance

Acquired from Kugel, Paris, May 1984.

Literature

E. Eerdmans, Henri Samuel: Master of the French Interior, New York, 2018, p. 206-7.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Named after its rose-red hue, rhodonite was often used by Russian stone cutters from the late 1700s until the end of the nineteenth century. Because of its soft color, rhodonite was often used in jewelry. Larger rhodonite objects were most often produced at celebrated Imperial lapidary workshops of Ekatinberg or Peterhof, where it was often times used with other luxurious hardstones, such as jasper, nephrite and porphyry.

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