A German giltwood, gilt-lead and cut-glass twelve-light chandelier

Berlin, ca. 1830/35

after a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 – 1841)

Dimensions:
Hight 115 cm
Ø 112 cm

Prov.:
Sobek Collection, Vienna

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was the principal architect to the Prussian court and supplied a number of chandeliers comparable to the offered example including chandeliers supplied to the Prinz August Palais (see E. Bartke, Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781 – 1841, 1982, fig. 290) and the Prinz Karl Palais (see J. Sievers, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Lebenswerk, Die Möbel, 1950, figs. 237-238). A closely comparable chandelier is reproduced, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Catalogue of Castles, Gardens and Cultural Properties in Prussia, 1981, p. 314, fig. 274, fig. 1

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