Napoleon III Candle Lamps
NAPOLEON III STYLE
Under Napoleon III’s rule, Paris underwent a great rebuilding overseen by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, which created grand avenues and lavish landmarks like the Paris Opera. Antique Napoleon III–style furniture was flamboyant and eclectic. It was also known as Second Empire style since it followed and referenced the Empire style of his uncle Napoleon I.
Developing from 1852–70, Napoleon III furniture was plush and ornate, matching the fashion for masked balls and socializing in salons. It borrowed freely from earlier French styles including Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI as well as aesthetics from around the world, from antiquity to Asian art. As writer Gustave Claudin remarked in 1867, the country’s architects worked in “a style which one would be tempted to call neo-Greco-Gothico-Pompadour-Pompeian.”
Napoleon III chairs were completely covered with velvet and lined with tassels; pouf footstools invited people to put up their feet. Sofas were upholstered with tapestries, and beds were adorned with gilt bronze and theatrical canopies. The addition of conservatories to homes led to new indoor-outdoor furniture, while the spirit of hygiene promoted by Baron Haussmann inspired bright, floral motifs.
Although the most ostentatious designs were for the elite, as seen in the Napoleon III apartments preserved in the Louvre, where red velvet, gilding and chandeliers create a cacophony of luxury, these trends influenced homes across classes as manufacturing made design increasingly accessible. Papier-mâché furniture allowed for elaborate shapes that would have been difficult to carve in wood. The malleable material was painted with chinoiserie patterns and decorative designs. It was mass-produced by factories such as Jennens and Bettridge with varnishing and mother-of-pearl inlays creating an effect reminiscent of Asian lacquer. (Surfaces that had been “japanned” — a specialty of Jennens and Bettridge — were intended to resemble lacquer work that was created in East Asia.)
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Style: Napoleon III
19th Century Pair of French Bronze Candlesticks Lamps Signed Clodion
Located in IT
Pair of important candlesticks in gilt and patinated bronze, lamp mounted.
Depicting Bacchanal of Satyrs and Signed Clodion.
France 19th Century
Measures h only candlesticks 65 x p 27 cm; h with lampshade 86 cm
This pair of important two lights candlesticks was made in the 19th century, in France, on the style of the great sculptor Clodion. Each candlestick consists of a body with a sculptural group in patinated bronze inspired by the famous bronzes of the master. The base is circular, in gilt bronze finely chiselled with geometric decoration and foliate motifs near the four feet, of feline shape. From the sculptural groups depart two graceful arms in gilded and chiselled bronze, composed of ramage and phytomorphic elements that culminate in the two candle holders.
In a candlestick the bacchanal consists of a female faun figure, that is half a woman and half a goat, playing with small fauns and putti, offering a bunch of grapes. In the other candlestick one observes the satyr Pan...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Napoleon III Candle Lamps
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Bronze
Pair 19thc Qajar Dynasty Crystal Table Lamps/ Candle Holders by Baccarat 1870
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Pair 19thc French for Qajar Dynasty Amber with Hand Painted Floral Enamelled Table Lamps / Candle Holders with Crystal Shades.
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c1900French Napoleon III Crystal Shade and Crystal Base Noth signed by Baccarat
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c1900 French Napoleon III Crystal Candle Lamp Base & Shade Both Signed by Baccarat. In very good clean condition.
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Late 19th Century Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Blowing Putto Candlestick Table Lamp
Located in Lisse, NL
Figurative and intricate bronze table lamp.
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Pair of Mid-Century French Painted Tole Two-Light Candle Holders
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Decorate a console or buffet with this pair of elegant antique candle holders. Created in France, circa 1960, the table lamps sit on a wooden round base decorated with two candle arm...
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