1840s Chandeliers and Pendants

Swedish Chandelier made of brass and beech attributed to Hans Bergstrom For ASEA Sweden. Each arm has a beautiful frosted art glass shade with golden details / arrows. Five screw fit...

A lovely large Italian sixteen arms gilt metal chandelier. Measures: Diameter 90 cm. Height 90 cm. The light requires sixteen single E14 screw fit lightbulbs (60Watt max.) LED compa...

This mid-19th century French gasolier has exquisite detail. Each arm has a single gas valve. Chandelier is doré bronze and patinated. Chandelier has been rewired and electrified. ...

Five-arm brass chandelier with opaque glass globes.

Scandinavian Modern, Swedish art deco five-arm chandelier in polished brass made circa late 1920s. Each arm is detailed with a stylized drape, a reeded sphere, a stepped bobeche and ...

A French nine-light crystal chandelier from the mid-19th century, with iron armature. Born in France during the reign of King Louis-Philippe, this exquisite chandelier features a cen...

Finely chiseled gilt bronze and cut crystal Empire elegant chandelier with six arms. Six E 14 light bulbs.

A large and impressive Empire style bronze and crystal pendant chandelier with graduated square crystals beads and gilt bronze hardware. Newly rewired. France, early 20th century.  

Clearly, the serpent arms are an indication that this is an Irish chandelier. Dating to the late 19th century, this chandelier has hollow arms and was perhaps lit using gas. It has s...

Chandelier, French, by Baccarat with the original cut crystals and pendants. The current height from ceiling is 52".

Chandelier from France by Baccarat. This fixtures features glass crystal adornment and spheric drops. The structure is pewter. It has been newly wired to fit US standards. The curren...

An interesting early 20th century gilt bronze and crystal twenty-six-light "Grotesque" chandelier. A unique Gothic style, drop crystal, basket chandelier with different "Grotesque" faces and designs. Twenty-four-tiered perimeter lights (including six lanterns) and two-tiered interior lights. Artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions, in a direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated manuscripts. From this the term began to be applied to larger caricatures, such as those of Leonardo da Vinci, and the modern sense began to develop. It is first recorded in English in 1646 from Sir Thomas Browne: "In nature there are no grotesques". By extension backwards in time, the term became also used for the medieval originals, and in modern terminology medieval drolleries, half-human thumbnail vignettes drawn in the margins, and carved figures on buildings (that are not also waterspouts, and so gargoyles) are also called "grotesques". A Boom in the production of works of art in the grotesque genre, characterized the period 1920–1933 of German art. In contemporary illustration art, the "grotesque" figures, in the ordinary conversational sense, commonly appear in the genre grotesque art...