A GERMAN ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS EIGHTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
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A GERMAN ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS EIGHTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER

CIRCA 1790 WITH SOME REPLACEMENTS, PROBABLY BERLIN AND ATTRIBUTABLE TO WERNER AND MIETH

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A GERMAN ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS EIGHTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
CIRCA 1790 WITH SOME REPLACEMENTS, PROBABLY BERLIN AND ATTRIBUTABLE TO WERNER AND MIETH
With arch suspension above a scrolled foliate beaded corona with guilloche collar, the swept pagoda roof with further bead swagged leaves and above a spreading glass drop body with splayed ormolu arms, the star form waist with pierced palmette frieze hung with needles and terminating at all six points with a drapery-swagged female mask suspending faceted drops and needle-hung conicle finials, each mask issuing three acanthus-wrapped scrolled branches with gadrooned drip- pans and baluster urn nozzles above a further cut-glass tapering tier with stylised stiff leaves and above a foliate rosette boss, drilled for electricity, restorations and replacements due to electrification including the splayed supports to the lower tier and spray corona to the top, partially regilded
54 in. (137 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide
Provenance
The Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, sold Sotheby's House sale, 5 October 1995, lot 1063.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 12 December 1998, lot 76 .
Acquired from Galerie Segoura, Paris, 2000.
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Lot Essay

A chandelier of related from - and displaying similar distinctive needle-hung domed subsidiary 'lamps' - remains at Schloss Charlottenburg. Supplied on 24 January 1797 by Wierner and Mieth for the Winter Appartment of King Frederic II, it is today in the Gelbe Atlaskammer and is illustrated in Kathe Klappenbach, Kronleuchter, Berlin, 2001, p.331, Kat. Nr V33.

Werner and Mieth were founded in Berlin in 1792 and were given a Royal Appointment in 1794. They supplied chandeliers for the most important houses around Berlin, including the Japanese Palace, the palace of Sans-Souci at Potsdam and Schloss Monbyou. Werner and Mieth even travelled to France, England and Holland to improve the technique of manufacture. In 1797, the company employed 29 people. They worked in gold, silver, bronze doré, glass, copper, cristal, tin and mercury. In 1797, King Frederic William II ordered further chandeliers for Charlottenburg, of which six were for the Winter apartments and six for the Summer. From around 1810, they became increasingly successful in exporting their wares throughout Europe, including Constantinople, eventually collaborating with Karl Friedrich Schinkel under the name Werner & Neffen.

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