277 - NINE-ARM CHANDELIER from the Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with rich ornamentation featuring pearl garlands, knives, candle holders, stars, pendants, and a glass and crystal tie made of cut and molded glass and crystal

NINE-ARM CHANDELIER from the Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with rich ornamentation featuring pearl garlands, knives, candle holders, stars, pendants, and a glass and crystal tie made of cut and molded glass and crystal The light arms are decorated with sea monsters Later converted to electricity with the addition of three lights in the upper section and four lights in the lower section H. excluding lower addition: 84 cm D. 56.5 cm (Electrical wiring not guaranteed; some wear to the gilding; missing pendants) 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.