A Napoléon III ormolu chandelier - image-1
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Lot 1222 Dα

A Napoléon III ormolu chandelier

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

A Napoléon III ormolu chandelier

With eight branches issuing from a central spindle surmounted by four putto's heads. Wired for electricity, with cables. H up to ring ca. 50, D ca. 82 cm.
Attributed to Paris, around 1850 - 70, after a model by André Charles Boulle.

Provenance

Private collection, Berlin, acquired in 1998.

Literature

For Boulle's early candlesticks see André Charles Boulle 1642 - 1732, Paris 2009, no. 31 (from the royal collections in Stockholm, inv. HGK 146).