Live Auction 14432Noble & Private Collections Part II
A GERMAN ORMOLU AND WHITE PORCELAIN FIFTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
Lot 525 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION

A GERMAN ORMOLU AND WHITE PORCELAIN FIFTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER

THE PORCELAIN SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE

Closed26 April 2017

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A GERMAN ORMOLU AND WHITE PORCELAIN FIFTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER
THE PORCELAIN SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE
With a pierced baluster-stem issuing two tiers of branches, with minor losses, replacements and repairs to the porcelain
48 in. (122 cm.) high; 32 in. (82 cm.) diam.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Monaco, 8 February 1981, lot 246.

Specialist note

A comparable parcel-gilt and polychrome-painted chandelier by Friederich Elias Meyer and Pierre Geoffroy, commissioned by King Frederick the Great circa 1765 for the Neues Palais, Potsdam-Sansoucci, was brought over by Emperor Wilhelm II during his exile at Huis Doorn, The Netherlands, where it still remains (illustrated in R. Baarsen et al, Rococo in Nederland, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2002, p. 81, no. 18). Another similar chandelier now in the Private Collection of HM the Queen, also from the German Royal family, was presented to Sandringham House by Kaiser Wilhelm I where it remains.