ID 819745
Lot 32 | AN EMPIRE CUT-GLASS MOUNTED ORMOLU AND TOLE-PEINTE EIGHTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 400 000
ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE OR GERARD-JEAN GALLE, CIRCA 1810-1815
With a blue-painted globe decorated all over with stars and encircled by an ormolu band cast with the signs of the zodiac, with six branches supported by griffins, the cut-glass garlands and drops added by Mrs. Getty, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
49 in. (124.5 cm.) high, 38 in (97 cm.) diameter
Provenance
The collection of The Hon. Mrs. Reginald (Daisy) Fellowes, thence by descent to her daughter Comtesse Alexandre de Casteja; Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 May 1977, lot 36.
The British Rail Pension Fund, sold Sotheby's, London, 24-25 November 1988, lot 3 (without the cut glass swags).
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
P. Arizzoli-Clementel, Georges Geoffroy, 1905-1971, Paris, 2016, pp. 70-71.
Special notice
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| Artist: | Claude Galle (1757 - 1815) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Glass, Gold |
| Art style: | Empire |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Ceiling lights |
| Artist: | Claude Galle (1757 - 1815) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Glass, Gold |
| Art style: | Empire |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Ceiling lights |
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