Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

GILT BRONZE: CHANDELIERS

156. Chandelier
     Paris, circa 1700
     Lead glass and rock crystal; gilt bronze
     Height: 3 ft. 6Ys in. (107 cm); Diameter:
     2 ft. 5/8 in. (74 cm)
     Accession number 88 .DH.17
     PROVENANCE
     [Kraemer et Cie, Paris].
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     "Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJ 17 (1989),
     no. 67, p. 140, illus.

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157. Chandelier
     Paris, circa 1700
     Gilt bronze
     Height: 3 ft. 9% in. (115 cm); Diameter:
     3 ft. 6%. in. (110 cm)
     Accession number 87 .DF.28
     PROVENANCE
     Edouard Chappey, Paris, circa 1900;
     [Michel Meyer, Paris, 1986].
     EXHIBITIONS
     Paris, Exposition Universelle de ιροο, 1900,
     no. 2891, p. 190.
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     "Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJ 16 (1988),
     no. 69, p. 177, illus.


158. Chandelier
     Paris, circa 1710
     Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle
     Gilt bronze
     Each element is stamped with the crowned
     Cfori745-i749.
     Height: 2 ft. 6Vz in. (77.5 cm); Diameter:
     2 ft. 8 in. (81.3 cm)
     Accession number 76. DF.13
     PROVENANCE
     Antenor Patino, Paris; [Kraemer et Cie,
     Paris, 1976]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
     p. 51, illus.; Jean-Nérée Ronfort, "André-
     Charles Boulle: die Bronzearbeiten und
     seine Werkstatt im Louvre," Vergoldete
     Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock
     und Klassizismus, Hans Ottomeyer and
     Peter Pröschel, eds. (Munich, 1986), vol. 2,
     p. 505; Verlet, Les Bronzes, pp. 91, 269, fig. 98.

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