A GERMAN NEOCLASSICAL CUT GLASS-MOUNTED ORMOLU EIGHTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIER, ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF WERNER AND MIETH BERLIN, CIRCA 1800

Overall in very good condition. Glass elements with some chips and abrasions to edges. Some glass elements are probably replaced. The lower tier of chandelier with some empty sockets, possibly lacking former elements. Some empty holes at the end of each candlebranch also possibly for a former element.
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Werner and Mieth were founded in Berlin in 1792 and were given a Royal Appointment in 1794. They supplied chandeliers for the most important houses around Berlin, including the Japanese Palace and the palace of Sans-Souci at Potsdam. They worked in gold, silver, bronze doré, glass, copper, crystal and tin. In 1797, King Frederic William II ordered further chandeliers for Charlottenburg, of which six were for the Winter apartments and six for the Summer. From around 1810, they became increasingly successful in exporting their wares throughout Europe, including Constantinople, eventually collaborating with Karl Friedrich Schinkel under the name Werner und Neffen.