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Stikla lustre no Asares baznīcas kā viens no angļu stikla lustru tipa piemēriem Latvijā

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Budže K.
Makslas Vesture un Teorija
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2021
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vol. 25
19-28
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The glass chandelier from Asare Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the few examples of English-style glass chandeliers that have come down to us in Latvia. The chandelier was probably made in Bohemia in the early 19th century. It is a single-level chandelier with a framework supporting glass arms with twelve candles. The upper part of the chandelier is enhanced by a glass canopy with small strings of glass beads. A peculiar element of the chandelier’s composition is a basket formed by rings filled with quadrangular glass beads and hung in glass bead strings. Today the chandelier is located in Rundāle Palace Museum. It received this object from the elder of the Asare Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1975. The museum’s restorer Maija Baņķiere (1938–2021) carried out the restoration works. The chandelier is now exhibited in the First Study of the Duke in Rundāle Palace. English-style chandeliers were also crafted in Bohemia. They were exported not only to different European countries but to England as well. Bohemian-made chandeliers were cheaper and conquered the market quickly. The so-called Northern German lands, including the present-day Latvia, were among the most favourite customers of Bohemian glass items since ancient times. The glass chandelier from Asare Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Bohemian-made English-style piece as well. Its composition and decorative cut of glass details is typical of English glass chandeliers. Particularly English in style are the upper canopy-shaped details and the vase-like, richly cut details strung on the stem of the chandelier. However, the quality of glasswork and the material itself is lower in comparison with chandeliers made in England. Also, the arm plate from which the glass light-bearing arms branch out is made of wood in line with the Bohemian tradition. The English-style glass chandelier probably did not end up in Asare Church because someone deliberately and purposefully followed English late 18th to early 19th century traditions of decorative art. However, it is an example of 18th century English-style chandeliers in a small rural church and evidence of the European-wide fascination with English culture and its decorative arts, purchased and imitated elsewhere too.
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