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A Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Four Light Hall Lantern, circa 1880
$12,879.42
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£9,589.04
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€10,800
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CA$17,800.93
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About the Item
A Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Four Light Hall Lantern
Circular lantern in chased, gilded and blue-patinated bronze, the shaft decorated with a quiver motif adorned with drapery, the upper and lower borders decorated with a frieze of intertwined laurel leaves, the uprights in the form of stylized ribboned arrows bordered with rows of pearls. The original glass panels curved.
Louis XV. Style
Circa 1880
Total height 120 cm Diam 35 cm
Lantern by itself H 77 cm
Lanterns have been known since antiquity.
In Paris, in 1667, the authorities were reportedly the first to place lanterns fitted with candles in the middle and at both ends of each street, and this practice spread to all the cities of France. To commemorate this event, a medal was struck in 1669 with the inscription :
"Urbis securitas et nitor" ("the safety and cleanliness of Paris"). The lamps were then lit by residents appointed annually by the authorities, each in their own neighborhood, at set times (and an extra clerk in each district to announce the time), and then lamplighters gradually appeared. A tax was levied, the "mud and lantern tax," which would allow for the transformation of the city under the impetus of its lieutenant general of police : Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie.
Streetlights were supposedly invented by an Abbot Matherot de Preigney and a certain Mr. Bourgeois de Châteaublanc, who, by letters patent registered on December 28, 1745, obtained the privilege for this undertaking.
Lanterns gave way to streetlights from 1766 onwards, with oil replacing double-wick candles. "Lanterns had existed until 1766. At that time, Mr. Bailly undertook to replace them with streetlights. Already, in April of that year, nearly half of the streets were lit by streetlights of his design, when the city council preferred the models of Mr. Bourgeois de Chateaublanc, which, with greater economy, provided more light.
This latter entrepreneur was commissioned to supply the capital with three thousand five hundred streetlights, powering seven thousand light sources. On June 30, 1769, Mr. Bourgeois was entrusted with the con-tract for lighting Paris for twenty years."
During the first installation of public gas lighting in Paris in 1818, in the Place du Carrousel, followed by that of the Rue de Rivoli in January 1819, the first lampposts (or streetlights on pedestals) appeared.
- Similar to:François Rémond (Maker)
- Dimensions:Height: 47.25 in (120 cm)Diameter: 13.78 in (35 cm)
- Power Source:Hardwired
- Voltage:220-240v
- Lampshade:Not Included
- Style:Louis XVI (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1880
- Condition:Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use. To be electrified depending of the voltage but very easy.
- Seller Location:Saint-Ouen, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2612347354432
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