This 6-light chandelier demonstrates the move away from the weighty and dense designs of the reign of Louis XIV with its new lyre-shaped framework. The lightness and transparency of this new style allowed for light to pass through the chandelier, while at the same time revealing all the hand-cut crystal pendants. The delicacy of the fixture in combination with the gently lyre curves of the framework suited the new look of the Rococo and remained a very popular style of crystal chandelier to the end of Louis XVI's reign.