Null Set of six labrets

Rock crystal 1.3 to 4.7 cm
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Set of six labrets Rock crystal 1.3 to 4.7 cm

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Set of six labrets Rock crystal 1.3 to 4.7 cm

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Large ormolu, rock crystal and blown glass cage chandelier with eight light arms. It features a central shaft of blown glass elements, threaded on an axis and surrounded by a cage richly adorned with cut rock crystal with pear, platelet and ball motifs. France. Louis XV period, circa 1750. H_132 cm D_75 cm Rock crystal has an index of refraction to light close to that of diamond. This rare and prohibitively expensive material led craftsmen to imitate it, as crystal appeared in Venice in the 15th century. This crystal imitated rock crystal, but with a more metallic hue. In 1697, Louis XIV presented the ambassadors of the King of Siam with twelve large rock crystal chandeliers. In his bedroom at Versailles, Louis XV had a chandelier with twelve bobèches delivered in 1738 by Delaroue et Slodtz. The Duc de Luynes wrote of this chandelier: "A rock crystal chandelier of great beauty, estimated to cost at least 100,000 livres, has been placed in the King's bedroom". In June 1749, Bouret de Villaumont purchased "a rock crystal chandelier mounted as a six-branched lyre" at a cost of 4690 livres. It was modest in price, however, compared to the one owned by the Marquise de Pompadour. In December 1752, Lazare Duvaux simply replaced a rock crystal bobèche in the "grand chandelier" of the Château de Bellevue, charging 30 livres for the repair. In 1756, the magnificent six-bobeche chandelier belonging to the Duc de Tallard was sold for 16,000 livres. Twenty years later, the eight-branch chandelier belonging to the collector Blondel de Gagny was sold for 18,000 livres.