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A LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-CRYSTAL TWENTY-FOUR LIGHT CHANDELIER

Lot 38
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 126 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 38 | A LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-CRYSTAL TWENTY-FOUR LIGHT CHANDELIER
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
A LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-CRYSTAL TWENTY-FOUR LIGHT CHANDELIER

BY MAISON CHAUMONT, CIRCA 1815-30, THE CUT-CRYSTAL ALMOST CERTAINLY BY THE MONT-CENIS ROYAL MANUFACTORY

The associated palmette corona hung with faceted drops over a lower foliate corona hung with chains of pendants above a circlet decorated with rosettes and mounted with scrolls hung with pendant swags, the circular ring with a frieze cast with scrolling foliate and floral motifs and surmounted by classical cassolettes issuing an upper tier of eight nozzles and a lower tier of sixteen scrolling branches supporting nozzles with crystal drip-pans hung with crystal swags with drop-pendants, above a tapering cascade of drops terminating in a faceted ball

70 in. (178 cm.) high; 47 in. (120 cm.) diameter





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

C. Samoyault-Verlet, biographical entry for Gilbert-Honoré Chaumont, Un âge d’or des arts décoratifs, 1814-1848.

Exhibition catalogue for the exibition presented at the Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais in Paris from 10 October to 30 December 1991, Paris, 1991, p. 517.

P. Arizzoli-Clémentel and Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Le mobilier de Versailles : chefs-d’oeuvre du XIXe siècle. Dijon, 2009.



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