276 - Twelve-arm tiered chandelier from the Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with acanthus leaf motifs and rich ornamentation featuring pearls, knives, pendants, and daggers made of cut and molded crystal

Twelve-arm tiered chandelier from the Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with acanthus leaf motifs and rich ornamentation featuring pearls, knives, pendants, and daggers made of cut and molded crystal Later converted to electric lighting H. 119 cm D. 62 cm (Wear and oxidation on the gilding; missing pendants; electrical wiring not guaranteed) Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.