Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 301. A GERMAN NEOCLASSICAL GILT METAL AND COBALT GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER AFTER A DESIGN BY SCHINKEL, CIRCA 1815.

A GERMAN NEOCLASSICAL GILT METAL AND COBALT GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER AFTER A DESIGN BY SCHINKEL, CIRCA 1815

Auction Closed

April 16, 08:57 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

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PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR


A GERMAN NEOCLASSICAL GILT METAL AND COBALT GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER AFTER A DESIGN BY SCHINKEL, CIRCA 1815


wired for electricity

height 29 in.; width 29 in.; length 29 in.

73.5 cm; 73.5 cm; 73.5 cm

Identical arms appear on an eight-light chandelier designed c.1815 by the Prussian Court architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) for the town palace of Crown Prince August in Wilhelmstrasse 65, Berlin. Smaller versions are found at Schloss Glienicke, Wandsee and the Neuer Pavillon at Schloss Charlottenburg. A drawing of the design survives in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin.