Russian 19th Century Neoclassical Ormolu and Crystal Six-Light Chandelier

A stunning Russian 19th century Neo-Classical st. ormolu and crystal chandelier, in the manner of Johan Zekh, one of Saint-Petersburg’s most celebrated masters. This ten light chande...

A stunning Russian early 19th century neo-classical st. ormolu and crystal chandelier. The ten arm chandelier is centered by an elegant stepp...

A magnificent Russian 19th century Neo-Classical st. cobalt blue glass, crystal, and ormolu twelve light chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a fine bottom circular pendant with...

An exceptional and most decorative Russian 19th century Neo-Classical st. ormolu, crystal, and green glass chandelier. The six arm chandelier is centered by a richly chased acorn finial and stunning hand blown emerald green central fut with beautiful sprays at the center spread over two tiers and adorned with lovely crystal rosettes...

A stunning and extremely elegant Russian 19th century Neo-Classical st. ormolu, crystal, glass, and mirror chandelier. The eight arm chandelier displays a striking circular wrap arou...

A spectacular and elegant Russian 19th century neo-classical st. crystal and gilt metal nine light chandelier. At the base above diamond pendants is an impressive blue glass urn shap...

A very fine and Rare 19th century Franco-Russian neoclassical revival style ormolu mounted white alabaster eight-light chandelier, possibly a design by Félix Chopin (French, 1813-1892). The ovoid carved alabaster plafonnier bowl, fitted with an ormolu decorative finial/rosette with a royal Fleur-de-lis design and four interior lights, surmounted with four-pairs of finely chased ormolu scrolled twin-light candelabra lights, each flanked on both sides with allegorical ormolu laurel branches and fitted with later frosted-glass flame shades; all suspended from a square ormolu canopy, centered with an acorn, by four ornamental gilt-bronze chains. Bearing spurious unknown and unverified stamped markings. Circa possibly Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1890. Félix Chopin (1813-1892) was a French bronze designer, the son of the Parisian fondeur Julien Chopin. He moved to St. Petersburg in 1838. Around 1841 he acquired the workshop of Alexander Guérin were he mainly designed and manufactured lighting fixtures, including chandeliers, candelabras, table lamps and torcheres. Chopin designed a chandelier for The Vladimir Hall, in the Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow and also designed a chandelier of the Tsarevich's in the Peterhof Palace in 1850, another chandelier for the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg (1849) and the palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich (1855-86) (ibid p. 168). He favored the 'French Rococo' style which gave him the freedom to experiment with exuberant and whimsical designs for Russian designers and marketplace, as well as for the Russian nobility. Chopin designed several art pieces with Eugene Lanceray...

Six arm crystal chandelier. It was hanging in the dining room of a brownstone in Boston’s Back Bay for generations. A waterfall of crystal chains flows from the top two tiers, Roped ...

A 19th century neoclassical style crystal and gilt bronze, twelve-light chandelier centered with opal blue glass.

A grand 19th century French Baccarat crystal 36-light, triple-tier chandelier. At over one meter high and wide, this large and impressive style of crystal chandelier was especially p...

A most charming Italian 19th century pressed patinated metal, giltwood and crystal twelve lights Genovese chandelier. This magnificent chandelier features 2 tiers of 6 lights each. I...

This Regal Gustavian Period Chandelier in the Russian Imperial Style has twelve candle branches and is fashioned in doré bronze, silverplated bronze, and is pinned with faceted icicle crystal pendants. The elegant corona has bronze sprays with icicle crystal pendants flowing up into a stylized fountain motif. There are four hand wrought silvered bronze chains suspending from the corona to the doré bronze ringed console with four clusters of three candelabra arms and four fronds in between with one faceted crystal icicle prism hanging. Suspended from the ringed console by four bronze s-curved rods is a Silver-Plated inverted curved cone frustum crowned by a Bronze Repoussé Ring...