Offered by Tobogan Antiques
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI style chandeliers, in copper and painted stucco with ten lights. The central shaft with indirect lighting is formed by a quiver decorated with flowers, around which a pearl ring brings together the light-arms in the shape of flowering stems highlighted with acanthus leaves. Two wreaths of flowers top the whole, attached to the ribbon-shaped ceiling light by garlands of pearls.
These chandeliers, whose decorative elements such as the quiver, the flower crowns, the acanthus leaves and the knot-shaped ceiling light perfectly illustrate the Louis XVI style, are inspired by the creations of Richard de Lalonde (1735-1808), a designer, decorator and ornamentalist active between 1780 and 1796. From 1780 onwards, Lalonde published a series of notebooks of various works, called Cahiers de meubles, covering a very wide range of drawings for interior decoration for use in painting and ornamental sculpture. (see photo attached)
