A large Russian neoclassical ormolu and cut-glass twenty-four light chandelier attributed to Johann Zech Saint Petersburg, circa 1800

with circular fluted nozzles and C-shaped candle branches in two tiers and suspending faceted drops and emerging from coronas cast with leaf tips, anthemia and Bacchic masks and suspending large faceted circular crystals.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patterson

In overall good condition. Minor marks and tarnishing to the ormolu. Some wear to the branches issuing drops, with minor chips to the cut glass, and some losses to the cut glass. The glass dish is a later replacement. Minor surface dirt.
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The workshop of Johan Zech in St. Petersburg was responsible for the production of nearly all the chandeliers made for the Palace of Pavlovsk and other Russian Imperial Palaces. Zech, a craftsman of German origin worked often together with an other artisan named Fischer.

Comparative Literature
K.A. Solovre, Russian Lighting 18th-19th Century, State Publishing House, Moscow, 1950.