LUSTRE In chased and gilt bronze, with twelve arms of light, decorated with foliage and three putti armed with their bows. Louis XV style, late 19th - early 20th century. H. 94 cm. - Diameter : 75 cm (approx.). After the model attributed to Jacques Caffiéri, from the former collection of the Marquise de Pompadour, now kept in the Mazarine Library (reproduced in Ottomeyer Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, p. 137, and in Pierre Verlet, Les Bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, 1999, page 288). The same chandelier, with variants: Christie's, lot 99 of the sale of 14 March 2013. Expert : BOISBAUDRY du Loic