1840s More Lighting

Ceiling pendant from Maison Arlus, France Lustre in perspex and brass Chandelier with three lights This chandelier is conform to USA and EU or UK standards Good condition Shipping :...

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.  

Midcentury pair of wall lights French manner of Guariche Undulated plastic shades with gold details 2 bulbs in each light Good vintage condition these can be rewired to USA and E...

Pair of French XVI-style (20th CentURY) bronze-dore monkey candlesticks (PRICED AS Pair).  

This pair are of Classic design and accomplished execution. The primary decorative motif is acanthus and beading. The base and column are reeded and have a matted finish. There are t...

Bronze two light bouillotte lamp with original patina and red tole painted shade with black and green accents. The exterior paint on the shade is original, the interior of the shade ...

A rare pair of carved oak two-arm wall sconces by Charles Dudouyt, France 1940s. Beautiful hand-carved detailing with the original jute fabric lamp shades, two Edison E14 light socke...

Set of French gilt iron sconces after Gilbert Poillerat. Stunning pair of French gilt iron sconces in the manner of Gilbert Poillerat. These fantastic torch form sconces have a beau...

A fine pair of antique French 19th century Louis XV style five light gilt bronze candelabra Condition: very good, original gilding with wear commensurate with age. These candelabra...

A pair of gilt bronze lamps in the French Restauration style (fitted for electricity) Quantity: 2 Measures: Height 22.75 in. (57.7 cm.), Width 7.125 in. (18 cm.).    

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...