French 19th Century Neoclassical Style Crystal and Ormolu Chandelier

An exquisite French 19th century Neo-Classical st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal eight-light chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a lovely circular array of prism-cut crystal pend...

A most elegant French 19th century Neo-Classical st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal eight arm chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a striking acorn finial amidst fine overlapping f...

A striking French 19th century neo-classical st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal chandelier. The twelve arm fifteen light chandelier is centered by an elegant richly chased acorn finial ...

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 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...

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

Extremely fine and elegant 19th century French Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted beaded eight-light chandelier, the ormolu is intricate with filigree and the crystal beads are very smal...

Spectacular large French Louis XV style ormolu and fine cut crystal two-tier twenty light chandelier, 19th century. The chandelier is surmounted with a gilt bronze flame, above a...

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...

Exceptional 19th century French Louis XVI Marie Antoinette style gilt bronze mounted crystal 12 light chandelier. The chandelier is centered...

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...

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...