A RUSSIAN ORMOLU, CUT-GLASS AND BLUE OPALINE GLASS THREE-LIGHT CHANDELIER

CIRCA 1790 AND LATER

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU, CUT-GLASS AND BLUE OPALINE GLASS THREE-LIGHT CHANDELIER
CIRCA 1790 AND LATER
The circular corona hung with facetted drops and suspending from chains, the main circlet issuing scrolled branches and a central baluster-shaped stem with obelisk-shaped finial surmounted by a star, hung with cut-glass chains and terminating in a leaf-wrapped berried boss, losses and replacements to glass elements
43 in. (110 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This chandelier can be dated to circa 1790-95 as it relates to the style 'ékatérinien', named after Catherine II, which combined gilt-bronze and cut-crystal or coloured glass elements and flourished in the later years of Catherine's reign (1790-1795). Related examples are illustrated in I. Sychev, The Russian chandeliers 1760-1830, 2003, p.36, see particularly no.128 which Sychev dates to circa 1790.

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