Style Napoleon III / Ref.9387
Pair of formerly gas chandeliers
Dimensions:
Width: 39'' ⅜ 100cm
Height: 49'' ¼ 125cm
Inner width: 15'' ⅜ 39cm
Inner height: 19'' ¼ 49cm
Origin:
19th century, France
Status:
Perfect condition.
Pair of large chandeliers with six branches, formerly gas lights adapted to electricity.
Each branch describes a curve and a counter curve, and is adorned with gilded bronze acanthus leaf motifs. They each support a glass globe, which are typical of gas lights: the globe is not completely closed; a cylinder shaped opening starts at the top. These openings were conceived to evacuate the fumes. The glass is engraved with stars.
The center of the chandelier is fully decorated with gilded bronze elements. Notice in particular a baluster vase shape surrounded my three sheathed women’s heads, linked together by swags.
Gas lighting began in 1792, when the Scotsman William Murdoch and the Frenchman J.-P. Minckelers devised the first really usable gas light. In1799, Philippe Lebon, an engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, was granted a patent for his thermo-lamps. However gas production really developed with the first Industrial Revolution, in the 1820’s, first in England then in France. In 1829, the rue de la Paix was the first street in Paris to be equipped with gaslight.
Presented for the first time in Paris at the World’s Fair of 1878 by T. A. Edison, electricity quickly replaced gas for lighting. Indeed, the next year the incandescent light bulb was available and began to make its way into households in the early 1880’s.
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