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Property from an Important East Coast Collection

Jean Royère

A Rare Twelve-Light Chandelier

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important East Coast Collection

Jean Royère

A Rare Twelve-Light Chandelier


circa 1949

patinated iron, paper shades

46 in. (116.8 cm) drop including fixture

43 in. (109.2 cm) diameter

Hemisphere Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Jean Royère, Décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, October 8, 1999-January 30, 2000, pp. 16 (for a period photograph of a related model in the Galerie Jean Royère, 1949) and 98 (for a drawing of a related model)
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, pp. 35, 139, 231 (for related models) and 291
Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, eds., Jean Royère: Volume I, Paris, 2012, p. 192 (for the above mentioned photograph)
Galerie Jacques Lacoste and Galerie Patrick Seguin, eds. Jean Royère: Volume II, Paris, 2012, p. 14