Live Auction 14219Noble & Private Collections Part I
A NORTH GERMAN GILT-LEAD, BRASS, GILTWOOD AND CUT-GLASS SIX-LIGHT CHANDELIER
Lot 159 APROPERTY OF A GERMAN GENTLEMAN

A NORTH GERMAN GILT-LEAD, BRASS, GILTWOOD AND CUT-GLASS SIX-LIGHT CHANDELIER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BERLIN, AFTER A DESIGN BY KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL

Closed25 April 2017

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GBP 3,500

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A NORTH GERMAN GILT-LEAD, BRASS, GILTWOOD AND CUT-GLASS SIX-LIGHT CHANDELIER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BERLIN, AFTER A DESIGN BY KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL
27 ½ in. (70 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

The restrained neoclassical form of the chandelier is characteristic for the work of the celebrated Berlin architect and designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). A closely related chandelier of almost identical shape and proportions is in the Gartensaal of the Schinkel-Pavillion at Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin (see H.-J. Giersberg, et. al., Preussische Königsschlösser in Berlin und Potsdam, Leipzig, 1992, p. 246.)