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Lot Essay
This type of 'Italien girandola' first appeared in the collection of Louis XIV around 1660. On 26 February 1691, the garde-meuble de la Couronne recorded:
Apporté de l'hôtel Colbert ceans (ici), quarantes girandoles de cristal à 6 branches et 6 bobèches et au haut une septième bobèche qui termine que le Roy a fait acheter à l'inventaire des meubles de feu monsieur le marquis de Seignelay,.... le Roy en a donné douze à S.A.R. Monsieur frère unique de sa Majesté, lesquelles douze girandoles j'ay aujoudhuy...delivré.
The twenty-eight remaining girandoles were then sent to the miroitier Sr de la Roue to be modified with the addition of a fleur-de-lys in place of the seventh bobèche and were placed in the Royal appartements at the château de Versailles.
Several pairs with three branches are recorded in the eighteenth century, including examples listed with the duc de Bouillon, whilst others of six branches, standing on silvered-copper bases, were offered in the sale of the dealer and collector Vincent Donjeux in 1793. A closely related pair of girandoles is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (acc. no. 85.DF.382.1-2.)
Apporté de l'hôtel Colbert ceans (ici), quarantes girandoles de cristal à 6 branches et 6 bobèches et au haut une septième bobèche qui termine que le Roy a fait acheter à l'inventaire des meubles de feu monsieur le marquis de Seignelay,.... le Roy en a donné douze à S.A.R. Monsieur frère unique de sa Majesté, lesquelles douze girandoles j'ay aujoudhuy...delivré.
The twenty-eight remaining girandoles were then sent to the miroitier Sr de la Roue to be modified with the addition of a fleur-de-lys in place of the seventh bobèche and were placed in the Royal appartements at the château de Versailles.
Several pairs with three branches are recorded in the eighteenth century, including examples listed with the duc de Bouillon, whilst others of six branches, standing on silvered-copper bases, were offered in the sale of the dealer and collector Vincent Donjeux in 1793. A closely related pair of girandoles is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (acc. no. 85.DF.382.1-2.)