A Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Patinated 6-Light Chandelier “aux Termes”

In chiseled, gilded and patinated bronze, the shaft consists of an ovoid-shaped vase in blued patinated bronze adorned on its belly with frieze and leaves scrolls in gilded bronze, surmounted by a blue patinated column ending with flowers and a seed. Neoclassical design with figures of women ending in acanthus,each hold two delicately leafed light-arms and three lights more from the shaft, the whole is suspended by three rigid chains.
amazing quality casting and hand-chiseling with patina and matte mercury original gilding.
circa 1875.

After a 18th century Model by François Rémond and his master Pierre Gouthière conserved in Metropolitan Museum of New York, another one in the collection of Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris France.

The delicacy of the carving of the gilded bronze illustrating the culmination of the neo-classical decorative repertoire at the end of the 18th Century makes this chandelier a high-quality work, after a Chandelier in gilded and blued bronze, attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), End of the 18th Century. Given in 1808 by Napoléon to Cambacérès for his Parisian house, the actual hôtel de Roquelaure. Exposed in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (Inv. CAM 146)