A Russian gilt-bronze and bronze small chandelier, after the model by Jean-Pierre Lancry first quarter 19th century

the scrolled corona with a pinecone finial hung with chains, the central reservoir with a lobed border with three flaming candle-nozzles surmounted on eagles heads, interposed by anthemions

Comparative Literature:
Igor Sychev, The Russian chandeliers, 1760-1830, Moscow, 2003, p.112, figs 497 and 498 for a very similar but larger chandelier with eagle‘s heads candlearms and flaming candlenozzles.

This unusual chandelier with its eagle candlearms and flaming candlenozzles illustrates the Russian interpretation of the French Empire style. See for example a very similar chandelier supplied by Lancry to Pavlovsk (where it remains) in 1804, illustrated by Sychev, op. cit., page 112, reproduced here in fig. 1.

Jean- Pierre Lancry:
He was a former inspector of wardrobe at the Imperial Theatre in Paris and in 1804, he brought the master craftsman Michel Pivert from France to set up a bronze-making workshop in St.Petersburg. From 1804-1807, he supplied bronzes to the Imperial Court and bronzes from his factory were in great demand. The items recorded as purchased for the Hermitage in 1804 to 1806 included mantel clocks, candelabras in the form of Egyptian women and winged figures of Nike and numerous `Pompeian lamps', all based on models by the French bronziers, Thomire, Galle, Ravrio and Feuchère. In 1810 he was the director of the Sestroretsk Armaments Plant.