17th Century Italian Chandelier
Located in Round Top, TX
A stunning 17th century Chandelier from Lombardy region of Italy.
Antique Late 17th Century Italian Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze, Iron
17th Century Italian Chandelier
Located in Round Top, TX
A stunning 17th century Chandelier from Lombardy region of Italy.
Bronze, Iron
Spectacular 17th Century French Iron Chandelier
Located in Round Top, TX
A spectacular 17th century Chandelier from the Provence region of France.
Iron
Small Synagogue Bronze Chandelier, 19th Century 17th Century Style
Located in PARIS, FR
Small gilded bronze chandelier from the 19th century. 17th century style.
Bronze
Pair Of Italian 17th Century Louis XIV Period Giltwood Chandeliers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely decorative and unique pair of Italian late 17th century Louis XIV Period patinated wood and Giltwood chandeliers.
Wood, Giltwood
Fine 17th-18th Century Polish or Dutch Brass Two-Tier 12-Light Chandelier
Located in Milford, NH
Probably Polish or Dutch, dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, in very good overall condition, retaining a nice early surface, with one arm repair, other minor imperfection...
Brass
Late 17th century Louis XIV Period patinated Wood and Giltwood chandeliers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A decorative and most unique pair of Italian late 17th century Louis XIV Period patinated Wood and Giltwood chandeliers.
Wood, Giltwood
17th Century Style 24 arms Dauphin Chandelier in nickel and gold
By OMBRES ET FACETTES
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, IDF
Twenty-four light arms are mounted around a solid bronze shaft, under the serene gaze of bearded faces at the top of the sculpture. This chandelier is finely crafted and embellished ...
Bronze
Vintage 1 Tier 17th Century Candle Dutch Brass Chandelier 6 Lights H40xW45
By Dutch Originals
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
Vintage 2 Tier 17th Century Electric Dutch Brass Chandelier 18 Lights H150xW125
By Dutch Originals
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
2 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 12 Lights H85xW74
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
1 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 8 Lights H60xW66
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
2 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 12 Lights H70xW62
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
1 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 6 Lights H60xW62
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
1 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 6 Lights H45xW50
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
1 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 6 Lights H54xW57
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
2 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier w. 18 Lights H150xW125
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
2 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier w. 18 Lights H100xW100
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
3 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier w. 30 Lights H250xW230
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
1 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 6 Lights H54xW57
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
1 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 6 Lights H62xW85
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
2 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 12 Lights H80xW77
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
2 Tier 17th Century Electric Model Dutch Brass Chandelier with 12 Lights H85xW85
Located in Vijfhuizen, NL
The business is the sole manufacturer of chandeliers using original casting moulds from the 17th century in all of Europe.
Brass
Two Brass Candlesticks, Probably German, 17th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Two brass candlesticks with balustraded shafts and drip trays with spikes. The candlesticks are not identical in their design, but complement each other decoratively to form a harmon...
Brass
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 15-Light Pendant Champagne
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st century due to the material it’s made ...
Copper
Crystal Chandelier Maria Theresa Style 18th Century Antique Faceted Light Effect
Located in Berlin, DE
A classic chandelier in the Maria Theresa style, distinguished by its refined detailing and balanced elegance. This piece has been fully restored in our Berlin workshop. The electri...
Crystal
A Pair Of Crystal Candlesticks And Gilt Bronze Mounts, Late 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
A Pair Of Crystal Candlesticks And Gilt Bronze Mounts, Late 17th Century Italian carved and polished crystal candlesticks, tiered, faceted, with incised brass detailing. 28x9x9cm
Crystal
Baltic 18th Century Crystal and Iron Candle Chandelier
Located in Montreal, QC
It is very unusual and perhaps even 17th century. This antique chandelier is not wired for electricity but can be wired on request.
Crystal, Iron
An Antique Spanish Two-Tier Bronze Twelve Light Chandelier, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Antique Spanish Two-Tier Bronze Twelve Light Chandelier, 19th Century Description: The 17th Century style chandelier with baluster stem supporting two graduated tiers, each issui...
Bronze
$6,900 / item
Giltwood Rococo Five Light Chandelier
Located in Westwood, NJ
Based on a 17th-century antique, this chandelier is petite in scale and hand-finished in gilt.
Metal
Large Dutch Baroque Style 18-Light Brass Chandelier
Located in Troy, NY
An impressive, very large (43" tall) and well proportioned four-tier brass chandelier with 18 candle-arms. In original condition, not drilled for electricity, but can be electrified....
Brass
William and Mary Style Silver Chandelier by Edward F Caldwell
By Edward F. Caldwell & Co.
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This handsome eight arm silvered bronze chandelier is by the renowned firm of Edward F. Caldwell, and retains its original matching signed ceiling canopy. It features Baroque style m...
Silver Plate, Bronze
Antique Crystal Basket Chandelier Brass Directoire Style Restored Empire Italy
Located in Berlin, DE
A well balanced basket chandelier that stands out not through excess, but through proportion and quiet elegance. This piece has been fully restored in our Berlin workshop. The elect...
Crystal, Brass
Boin-Masson, "Cupids" Chandelier, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Although already existing in the 17th century, the word “chandelier” was only used late because until the 18th century in the old inventories, the chandelier is designated by the wor...
Crystal, Bronze
$1,420Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of Chiseled Candlesticks
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Pair of chiseled candlesticks plated brass Germany, probably Nuremberg 17th century H 12 x (base diameter) 9,5 cm Very good conditions.
Brass
Zorab Creation Feria Earrings in 13 carats of multi-color Sapphires
By Zorab Creation
Located in San Diego, CA
Inspired from the seductive flamenco dance from Madrid in the 15th century, the Feria earrings, a Zorab Creation, will set your heels ablaze. Turn up your personal flame with 7.36 c...
White Diamond, Brown Diamond, Sapphire, Yellow Sapphire, 18k Gold, Palla...
1960s Arne Jacobsen Pendant Light for Louis Poulsen, Denmark
By Louis Poulsen, Arne Jacobsen
Located in Praha, CZ
- cleaned and rewired - 3x E14-E12bulb - US wiring compatible
Chrome
Ceiling Fixture, Global Pendant Light, White, Small
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Hanging pendant light, white stripes, mid-century.
Glass
Ceiling Fixture, Global Pendant Light, Black
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Hanging mid-century pendant light.
Cut Glass
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 1 Wall Light Copper
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st- century due to the material it’s made...
Copper
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 1 Wall Light Black
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st century due to the material it’s made ...
Copper
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 2 Wall Light Champagne
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st century due to the material it’s made ...
Copper
$2,973Sale Price / set|30% Off
Antique French Crystal Sconces Baccarat style 4 Light Wall candelbras Baroque
By Maison Charles, Swarovski, Cristalleries De Baccarat, Maison Baguès, Baccarat
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Early forms emerged with the 17th-century European tradition of embelish chandeliers with rock crystals, which evolved from the Baroque style.
Crystal, Bronze
$15,000
1950s Baguès Chandelier
By Maison Baguès
Located in New York, NY
Stylistically, it represents what Baguès was, and remains, best known for, namely, modern interpretations of historical styles — in this case, a 17th century Dutch brass chandelier. ...
Brass
Chandeliers in Nickel and Crystal by Carl G. Hallberg
By Carl Gustav Hallberg
Located in New York, NY
Hallberg and his designers designed a number of light fixtures, many of which took aspects of 17th century chandeliers and modified them for the 20th century.
Crystal, Nickel, Silver, Silver Plate
Unavailable|$23,672
Deutsch Bronze Chandelier (17th Century)
Located in Paris, FR
North Europe Bronze functional, 17th century.
Unavailable|$5,416
17th Century Period Dutch Brass Chandelier
Located in London, GB
An alluring Anglo-Dutch period brass chandelier dating from the second half of the 17th century.
Brass
Unavailable|$5,279
17th Century Style Silver Chandelier
Located in London, GB
A well-proportioned 17th century style silvered chandelier. The ten lights are spread over two tiers with each arm profusely decorated with fine kite and faceted drops.
Bronze
Unavailable|$130,000
Dutch, 17th Century, Brass Chandelier
Located in Charleston, SC
An important Dutch, 17th century, brass chandelier signed with the initials, “EEV”.
Unavailable|$6,855
17th Century Style, Two-Tier Brass Ball Chandelier
Located in London, GB
A 17th century style, two-tier brass ball chandelier, consisting of twelve arms.
Brass
Unavailable|$3,850
Dutch 17th Century Style Heavy Solid Brass Six Branch Chandelier
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
This is a really rather beautiful and usable Dutch 17th century style heavy solid brass six branch chandelier, a beautiful midcentury recreation that would be the perfect finishing p...
Brass
Unavailable|$5,622 / set
Antique Pair of Italian Chandeliers
Located in Schellebelle, BE
An exceptional pair of Antique Italian Chandeliers made out of Gilded Patinated Wood, probably from an Italian Church in Tuscany, the chandeliers have a very refined design and there...
Fruitwood
Unavailable|$16,500
17th c. Style Italian 8 light Chandelier
Located in Maastricht, NL
An ormolu and glass 8 light stem chandelier , exceptional fine detailed and most certainly based on the late 17th / early 18th.century designs by the Italian / milanese designers lik...
Ormolu
Unavailable|$7,900
An Italian 17th c. Style Ormolu Five light Chandelier
Located in Maastricht, NL
A five light Italian 17th c. Style ormolu and glass chandelier in the manner of the well known Milanese ' Lustrier ' Giovanni Battista Metellino. This fine and detailed executed pie...
Crystal, Bronze
Unavailable|$9,173
18 Karat Rose Gold Black Diamond 8.44 Carat Dangle Earrings
By Evél Juwel
Located in Munich, DE
With this Big Flow Black earring we address women with an affinity for design and a passion for individual, exciting and unique jewellery. – 18-karat rose gold – 542 diamonds (totall...
Black Diamond, 18k Gold
Unavailable|$2,663 / set
Antique Baroque Bronze Candlesticks
Located in EL Waalre, NL
Set of two Baroque pricket candlesticks were used for lighting Christian churches, particularly Roman-Catholic churches, South-Netherlands, most likely Antwerp, late 17th century. O...
Bronze
Unavailable|$2,959
17th Century Louis XIV Silvered Carved Wood Italian Candlestick, 1670s
Located in Rome, Italy
Roman Manufacture 17th century Roman chandelier Louis XIV. Carved wood, gilded with silver leaf, original in all its parts.
Wood
Sold|$4,950
French 17th Century Chandelier
Located in Round Top, TX
A very handsome 17th century Chandelier from the Provence region of France.
Iron
Chandeliers — simple in form, inspired by candelabras and originally made of wood or iron — first made an appearance in early churches. For those wealthy enough to afford them for their homes in the medieval period, a chandelier's suspended lights likely exuded imminent danger, as lit candles served as the light source for fixtures of the era. Things have thankfully changed since then, and antique chandeliers and pendant lights are popular in many interiors today.
While gas lighting during the late 18th century represented an upgrade for chandeliers — and gas lamps would long inspire Danish architect and pioneering modernist lighting designer Poul Henningsen — it would eventually be replaced with the familiar electric lighting of today.
The key difference between a pendant light and a chandelier is that a pendant incorporates only a single bulb into its design. Don’t mistake this for simplicity, however. An Art Deco–styled homage to Sputnik from Murano glass artisans Giovanni Dalla Fina, with handcrafted decorative elements supported by a chrome frame, is just one stunning example of the elaborate engineering that can be incorporated into every component of a chandelier. (Note: there is more than one lighting fixture that shares its name with the iconic mid-century-era satellite — see Gino Sarfatti’s design too.)
Chandeliers have evolved over time, but their classic elegance has remained unchanged.
Not only will the right chandelier prove impressive in a given room, but it can also offer a certain sense of practicality. These fixtures can easily illuminate an entire space, while their elevated position prevents them from creating glare or straining one’s eyes.
Certain materials, like glass, can complement naturally lit settings without stealing the show. Brass, on the other hand, can introduce an alluring, warm glow. While LEDs have earned a bad reputation for their perceived harsh bluish lights and a loss of brightness over their life span, the right design choices can help harness their lighting potential and create the perfect mood. A careful approach to lighting can transform your room into a peaceful and cozy nook, ideal for napping, reading or working.
For midsize spaces, a wall light or sconce can pull the room together and get the lighting job done. Perforated steel rings underneath five bands of handspun aluminum support a rich diffusion of light within Alvar Aalto's Beehive pendant light, but if you’re looking to brighten a more modest room, perhaps a minimalist solution is what you’re after. The mid-century modern furniture designer Charlotte Perriand devised her CP-1 wall lamps in the 1960s, in which a repositioning of sheet-metal plates can redirect light as needed.
The versatility and variability of these lighting staples mean that, when it comes to finding something like the perfect chandelier, you’ll never be left hanging. From the natural world-inspired designs of the Art Nouveau era to the classic beauty of Paul Ferrante's fixtures, there is a style for every room.
With designs for pendant lights and chandeliers across eras, colors and materials, you’ll never run out of options to explore on 1stDibs — shop a collection today that includes antique Art Deco chandeliers, Stilnovo chandeliers, Baccarat chandeliers and more.
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