Description:

A Large Pair of Palatial French 19th/20th Century Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Figural Twenty-Four Light Chandeliers, After a Model by Jacques Caffiéri. Circa: 1900

Each with an open central stem issuing tiers of scrolling foliage supporting cherubs in various pursuits; the scrolled candlearms incorporating conforming nozzles; the cage-form finial fitted with gilt-bronze doves. The original on which this model is based hangs now in the Bibliothéque Mazarine in Paris, illustrated by Ottomeyer and Pröschell: Vergoldete Bronzen I, p.137 1.27.4.
Along with the enormous chandelier in the Wallace Collection in London, it is the most important work of the celebrated bronzier Jacques Caffiéri and bears the arms of Madame de Pompadour. Originally at the Château Anet the chandelier was acquired by the Bibliothéque after the French Revolution.

Height: 48 inches (121.9 cm)
Width: 52 inches (132.1 cm)

Ref.: A868