French 19th Century Empire Neoclassical St. Alabaster and Ormolu Chandelier

A most impressive French 19th century neo-classical st. alabaster and ormolu eight light, four arm chandelier. The chandelier is centered by an elegant ormolu acorn finial with a fol...

A beautiful and most impressive French 19th century Empire st. Alabaster and Ormolu chandelier. This four arm eight light chandelier is centered by a striking foliate acorn shaped Or...

A beautiful and most impressive French 19th century Empire st. alabaster and ormolu chandelier. The nine arm twelve light chandelier is centered by a striking foliate acorn shaped or...

A magnificent French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Alabaster, patinated Bronze and Ormolu chandelier. This six arm thirteen light chandelier has an oval shaped Alabaster moulded bas...

A stunning French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and alabaster eight arm fourteen light chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a fine foliate finial below the impressive alabas...

A stunning French 19th century Louis XVI st. alabaster and ormolu chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a richly chased acorn finial below the impressive alabaster bowl with a wo...

Absolutely gorgeous 19th century French chandelier in the Louis XVI style. Ormolu and brass central columns and supports. Central column surrounded by three laurel wreaths. Three s...

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...

This Empire chandelier has a bronze Doré Corona above oval shaped crystal chains descending to Doré mounted circular dark green painted bronze band with seven candelabra...

This eye-catching chandelier was crafted in France in the early 1800’s during the 1st Empire period. Composed of a patinated bronze bowl with a cone-shaped neck. The bowl’s base is d...

Antique 19th Century French Empire Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Chandelier.

This Regal First Period French Empire Ormolu and Crystal Six-Arm Chandelier was made in France in the Early Nineteenth Century. The Bronze Doré Castings are of the highest refined quality. The Doré Corona is surmounted with seven Acanthus Leaves, each pinned with a French crystal drop. The Corona suspends to the hand-pinned faceted oval crystal chain tent that is encompassed with hand pined French drops. The tent chains draw the eye down to the two tone console...