A LOUIS XV1 ORMOLU, BRONZE, ROCK-CRYSTAL AND CUT-GLASS TWENTY-FOUR-LIGHT CHANDELIER, the milles-raies panelled chevron corona issuing scrolling foliate branches hung with facetted pear-drops, above eight chains centred by a central patinated bronze amphora issuing a tier of eight scrolling stiff-leaf-cast branches, each with star-shaped base, turned drip-pan and dished nozzle, above a further bowl with chevron issuing sixteen further scrolled foliate-cast trumpet-branches hung with further swagged drops, above a pierced domed canopy and bifurcated boss, fitted for electricity, restorations and with some cut-glass replacements to drops

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A LOUIS XV1 ORMOLU, BRONZE, ROCK-CRYSTAL AND CUT-GLASS TWENTY-FOUR-LIGHT CHANDELIER, the milles-raies panelled chevron corona issuing scrolling foliate branches hung with facetted pear-drops, above eight chains centred by a central patinated bronze amphora issuing a tier of eight scrolling stiff-leaf-cast branches, each with star-shaped base, turned drip-pan and dished nozzle, above a further bowl with chevron issuing sixteen further scrolled foliate-cast trumpet-branches hung with further swagged drops, above a pierced domed canopy and bifurcated boss, fitted for electricity, restorations and with some cut-glass replacements to drops
44½in. (113cm.) diam.; 68in. (173cm.) high

Provenance

The Jamie Ortiz-Patino Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992

Lot Essay

An almost identical twenty-light chandelier was removed from the Imperial garde meuble in 1809 and installed in the dining-room of the Empress at the Petit Trianon, Versailles, (see Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Versailles, Le Petit Trianon, Paris, 1989, pp. 90-91, fig. 37)

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