A fine Russian neoclassical ormolu and cut-glass ten-light chandelier circa 1810

Aurélia and Anne Lovreglio, Dictionnaire des Mobiliers et des objets d'art du Moyen Age au XXI Siècle, Paris, 2006, p. 379, fig. 2.

I. Sychev, The Russian Chandeliers, St. Petersburg, 2003, fig. 917, p. 184

In excellent overall condition; ormolu has been expertly cleaned; some replaced cut-glass elements are is customary with age and use.
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This chandelier can be compared with examples which were made to Carlo Rossi's designs for Pavlovsk Palace by the German bronzier Ivan Dipner who did extensive work in the Imperial residences in Saint Petersburg.  A comparable example is illustrated, A. Kuchumov, Russian Decorative Art in the Collection of the Pavlovsk Palace Museum, 1981, Leningrad, p. 148, fig. 85.