A GERMAN NEOCLASSICAL GILT-METAL, GILTWOOD AND CUT-GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER, AFTER A DESIGN BY KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL circa 1835

the spirally fluted standard with two tiers of gilt-metal sprays fitted with cut-glass pendants, the concave sided molded corona fitted with anthemion and curved candle arms with foliate rinceaux, fitted with cut-glass pendants. Regilt, wired for electricity.

Some losses to the drops. With minor chips to the drops. Age cracks and minor chips to the carving and gilding. Rubbing to the gilding, with some losses particularly to the metal supports of the octagonal corona. Minor traces of surface abrasions and verdigris to the gilt-metal mounts. In otherwise good condition.
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) was the principal architect to the Prussian court and supplied a number of chandeliers comparable to the offered example including chandeliers supplied for the Prinz August Palais (see E. Bartke, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1781-1841, 1982, fig. 290) and the Prinz Karl Palais (see J. Sievers, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Lebenswerk, Die Möbel, 1950, figs. 237-238). A closely comparable chandelier is reproduced, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Catalogue of Castles, Gardens and Cultural Properties in Prussia, 1981, p. 314, fig. 274, fig. 1.

A virtually identical chandelier from the collection of Garrick C. Stephenson was sold, Christie's New York, October 29, 1993, lot 196. An almost identical chandelier with twenty-four lights formerly in the Minister's banquet room, Christensborg, Cophenhagen was sold, Christie's, New York, March 27, 1977, lot 191. A comparable twelve-light chandelier with identical molded borders fitted with anthemia and with identical curved candle branches was sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 2003, lot 242. Another was sold in the Ariane Dandois Sale, Sotheby's New York, 24-25 October, 2007, lot 252A. Each of these examples had identical molded bands with anthemia and curved candle branches and all are attributed to this celebrated architect and designer.