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Twelve-arm tiered chandelier from the Napoleon III period, i…
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Twelve-arm tiered chandelier from the Napoleon III period, i…
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
Twelve-arm tiered chandelier from the Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with acanthus leaf decoration and rich ornamentation featuring pearls, knives, pendants and daggers in cut and moulded crystal
Subsequently fitted with electric lighting
H. 119 cm
D. 62 cm
(Signs of wear and oxidation to the gilding; some pendants missing; electrical fittings not guaranteed)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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