A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Six-Light Chandelier ‘Aux Termes’.
The central blue-painted tole bowl with spirally fluted lid and pomegranate finial. Modelled with three caryatid term figures holding spiral branches issuing candle nozzles. Hung from three loop chains.
France, Circa 1900.
This chandelier is reduced in scale from a celebrated model attributed to the bronzier François Rémond dating to circa 1785. It hangs in the Nissim de Camondo museum in Paris (Inv. CAM 146). Another, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972.242). The model was revived in the nineteenth century by bronziers including Henry Dasson and Alfred Beurdeley.
By appointment only.
