A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat crystal, cut glass and ormolu chandelier
List: $15,500.00
A beautiful and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat crystal, cut glass, and ormolu chandelier. The eleven bulb chandelier displays a graceful montgolfière shape with a most decorative dome shaped array of prism shaped cut crystal pendants.... — Read More
A beautiful and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat crystal, cut glass, and ormolu chandelier. The eleven bulb chandelier displays a graceful montgolfière shape with a most decorative dome shaped array of prism shaped cut crystal pendants. The central tier displays a beautiful pierced design with an elegant wrap around fitted beaded band, richly chased swaging berried laurel garlands, and exquisite ball pendants. Beautiful lightly curved swaging beaded cut glass garlands lead upwards to the striking mottled tapered top crown adorned with additional finely detailed swaging berried laurel garlands and large acanthus leaves in a superb satin and burnished finish. — Read Less
- Weight: 45 lbs / 20.4075 kg
- Item # 12718
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H: 35 in L: 16 in D: 16 in
H: 89 cm L: 41 cm D: 41 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Baccarat Crystal, Glass, Ormolu
- Louis XVI st. Read More
- Baccarat Read More
In 1764 King Louis XV of France gave permission to found a glassworks in the town of Baccarat. Production consisted of window panes, mirrors and stemware until 1816 when the first crystal oven went into operation. By that time over 3000 workers were employed at the site.
Baccarat was famous and requested by many royal houses and received its first royal commission in 1823. This began a lengthy line of commissions for royalty and heads of state throughout the world. In 1855 Baccarat won its first gold medal at the Worlds Fair in Paris after which they began to mark their creations towards the end of the 19th century.
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