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Lot Essay
'BACCARAT ET LA RUSSIE'
Lots 177 and 178, comprising an imposing candelabrum and guéridon, were among the models which Tsar Alexander II commissioned from the celebrated Manufacture de Baccarat for the private apartments of his wife, Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna. The Tsar admired a closely-related candelabrum on Baccarat’s stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, and his subsequent commission – for a candelabrum, fountain and guéridon – was the first in a series of substantial orders by the Romanov family from the celebrated manufactory. Over the course of the following decades, Baccarat would go on to furnish many of the grandest palaces of the Russian Imperial Family, employing nearly 1000 workers on commissions for the Romanovs at the turn of the century. The candelabrum and guéridon are illustrated in Baccarat, La Légende du Cristal, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015, Paris, 2014, p. 64-9. A pair 'candélabres de la Tsarine' were sold Christie's, New York, 16 April 2015, lot 72 ($118,750).
Lots 177 and 178, comprising an imposing candelabrum and guéridon, were among the models which Tsar Alexander II commissioned from the celebrated Manufacture de Baccarat for the private apartments of his wife, Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna. The Tsar admired a closely-related candelabrum on Baccarat’s stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, and his subsequent commission – for a candelabrum, fountain and guéridon – was the first in a series of substantial orders by the Romanov family from the celebrated manufactory. Over the course of the following decades, Baccarat would go on to furnish many of the grandest palaces of the Russian Imperial Family, employing nearly 1000 workers on commissions for the Romanovs at the turn of the century. The candelabrum and guéridon are illustrated in Baccarat, La Légende du Cristal, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015, Paris, 2014, p. 64-9. A pair 'candélabres de la Tsarine' were sold Christie's, New York, 16 April 2015, lot 72 ($118,750).