A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU AND CUT GLASS SEVEN-LIGHT GIRANDOLES
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU AND CUT GLASS SEVEN-LIGHT GIRANDOLES
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU AND CUT GLASS SEVEN-LIGHT GIRANDOLES

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU AND CUT GLASS SEVEN-LIGHT GIRANDOLES
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The stems issuing two tiers of scrolling arms hung with faceted and flower-form drops, on scrolling tripod supports, with later conforming ebonized bases, electrified, the glass drops largely 18th century
40 ¾ in. (103.5 cm.) high overall
來源
Acquired from Steinitz, Paris.

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Csongor Kis
Csongor Kis AVP, Specialist

拍品專文

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.)

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