Early 20th Century Rococo Style Dresden Porcelain Chandelier
By Dresden Porcelain
Located in Chicago, IL
This small and gorgeous Dresden porcelain chandelier has three undulating arms with hanging floral
Porcelain
Antique Dresden Baroque Chandelier, circa 1880
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique Dresden Baroque chandelier, circa 1880. Gilded bronze casting. Multiple curly arms. High
Brass
Antique 19th Century German Dresden Porcelain Chandelier.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th Century German Dresden Porcelain Chandelier.
Porcelain
$572
H 15.75 in W 14.18 in D 14.18 in
Vintage Dresden Style Porcelain and Brass Chandelier, Four Lights
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful vintage porcelain and brass four light chandelier decorated with garlands of
Brass
$233 / item
H 12.6 in Dm 14.97 in
East German Enamel Factory Light by LBD Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden, 1950s
By VEB
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial enamel factory lamp made by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden in East Germany during the
Enamel, Iron
$233
H 11.82 in Dm 14.97 in
East German Black Enamel Factory Light by LBD Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden, 1950s
By VEB Leuchten
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial enamel factory light made by LBD Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden in East Germany during the
Enamel, Iron
$233
H 18.9 in Dm 18.9 in
East German Black Enamel Factory Light by LBD Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden, 1950s
By VEB Leuchten
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial enamel factory light made by LBD Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden in East Germany during the
Enamel, Iron
$233
H 16.15 in Dm 16.54 in
East German Black Enamel Factory Light by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden, 1950s
By VEB Leuchten
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial enamel factory light made by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden in East Germany during the
Enamel, Iron
Petite Chandelier Hand Painted and Gilded Porcelain, circa 1940
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Add a touch of opulence to your home with this charming chandelier! It’s a petite Dresden Porcelain
Metal
Vintage Dresden Chandelier
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Beautiful large Dresden chandelier with 9 lights
Porcelain
Early 20th C Basket Of Dresden Roses Chandelier
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Beautiful re-wired and cleaned basket of porcelain Dresden roses.
Porcelain
Antique French Dresden Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Dresden chandelier.
Antique Porcelain "Dresden" Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Porcelain chandelier rendered in soft tones
Porcelain
Antique French Dresden Flower Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French bronze with Dresden flower basket.
Bronze
Antique French Dresden Flower Bronze Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Dresden Flower Bronze Chandelier, c.1890-1910
Bronze
Bronze D'ore and Dresden Porcelain Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Bronze D'ore and Dresden Porcelain Louis16th Chandelier "Saxe Flowers"
Sold
H 23 in Dm 16 in
Antique French Wrought Iron Chandelier with Dresden Porcelain Flowers Circa 1910
Located in New Orleans, LA
Small antique French wrought iron chandelier with Dresden Porcelain flowers, circa 1910.
Iron
Antique French Bronze Dore With Dresden Flowers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Bronze Dore With Dresden Flowers Chandelier.
Antique Bronze Lantern with Dresden Flowers, circa 1900
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique bronze lantern with Dresden flowers, circa 1900.
Bronze
Sold
H 16.54 in Dm 16.54 in
Industrial Black Enamel Factory Light by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden, 1950s
By VEB
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial enamel factory lamp made by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden in East Germany during the
Aluminum, Enamel
Sold
H 15.75 in Dm 16.54 in
East German Black Enamel Factory Light by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden, 1950s
By VEB
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial enamel factory lamp made by Lbd Veb Leuchtenbau Dresden in East Germany during the
Enamel, Iron
Antique French Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Dresden Flower Chandelier
Antique French Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Gold Bronze Chandelier with Dresden Flowers
Gold, Bronze
Antique Beaded Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French delicately beaded basket chandelier "Marie Antionette" Dresden Flowers.
Antique 18th Century Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Tole Chandelier with Dresden Figure
Crystal, Iron, Tôle
Antique French Delicately Beaded Marie Antoinette Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Marie Antoinette style chandelier with Dresden flowers and a delicately beaded
Antique French Bronze D'ore Chandelier with Dresden Flowers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French bronze D'ore chandelier with Dresden flowers.
Bronze
French Rococo Bronze Guilt 1800s 8 Light Chandelier
Located in Peekskill, NY
chandelier with Dresden flowers, circa 1880. It has 8 frosted glass rose shades. The each sockets has been
Bronze
Mid 19th C French Chandelier With Dresden Porcelain Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century French Chandelier With Dresden Porcelain Flowers 19''h X 14''w
Dresden Porcelain Chandelier with Polychrome Flowers, 1970
By Dresden Porcelain
Located in Wingene, BE
Porcelain chandelier by Dresden Porcelain in Germany. Made circa 1970. Six points of light
Porcelain
$377,049
H 52.37 in W 35.83 in D 24.41 in
Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Louis XVI Style Casket on Stand
Located in London, GB
Gilt bronze and Sèvres style porcelain Louis XVI style casket on stand This magnificent Louis XVI style ormolu casket is supported by a mirror-topped table stand, which sits on fo...
Ormolu
Huge Italian Tole Porcelain Flowers Polychrome Chandelier, circa 1870 Rare
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing 4 lights, 3 encircling and one in center. Will be newly rewired with certified UL US sockets for the United States and appropriate sockets for all other countries and ready t...
Tôle
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
Oil, Canvas
$336,651
H 100.6 in W 66.93 in D 24.81 in
Rare Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim & Pauly Cie Et Venice Antique Carved Armoire
By Guggenheim Museum, Pauly et Cie
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare one of a kind Pauly CIE Et stamped hand carved walnut armoire made by the genius that was Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim 1837-1910 W...
Walnut
19th Century Baroque Style Traditional Floral Murano Chandelier
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite multicolored 19th-century floral Murano glass chandelier has three lights disguised by a cascade of flowers and leaves, evoking a wild garden. Featuring a scroll cente...
Blown Glass
Italian Porcelain Flower Roses Tole Chandelier
Located in Antwerp, BE
An Italian handcut tole chandelier. The cage form metal frame ornamented with tole leaves, and pink-white porcelain flowers. The chandelier has five sockets for small incandescent ...
Metal
Pair of Early 19th Century French Boulle Cabinets
By Etienne Levasseur
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An important pair of early 19th century French cabinets, made by Pierre-Étienne Levasseur. gilt bronze mounted ebony and ebonised, cut-brass, pewter and faux tortoiseshell marquetry...
Brass
$471,311
H 16.15 in W 28.35 in D 20.48 in
Magnificent and large ormolu and hardstone Regency period ebonized wooden casket
Located in London, GB
Magnificent and large ormolu and hardstone mounted ebonized wooden casket English, 19th Century Height 41cm, width 72cm, depth 52cm Exceptionally fine and richly adorned, this beau...
Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Ormolu
Capodimonte Chandelier, Italy, 1960s
By Capodimonte
Located in Antwerp, BE
Magnificent Capodimonte chandelier with six lights and three hand painted Cherubs + seven hanging roses. This one-tier porcelain chandelier has an exceptional quality. It is crafted ...
Brass
$1,009,952
H 33.47 in W 44.49 in D 24.81 in
Russian Malachite and Silver Table by Imperial Silversmiths the Grachev Brothers
By Grachev Brothers
Located in London, GB
Russian malachite and silver table by Imperial silversmiths the Grachev Brothers Russian, 1884 Measures: Height 85cm, width 113cm, depth 63cm This beautiful silver table was man...
Malachite, Silver
Italian Gilded Tole Leaf Chandelier, Mid 20th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
This beautiful floriate Italian chandelier is made of gilded (gold leaf covered) tole and features a forest of leaf bobeches as well as ten (10) lights. The oval fixture dates back t...
Tin, Gold Leaf
19th Century Lacquered Small Cabinet
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in Paris, FR
Petite 19th-century armoire in ebony veneer, adorned with brass inlay decoration. It opens with two doors with panels of Chinese lacquer from the 17th century, featuring birds on fl...
Granite, Brass
$1,885,245
H 59.45 in W 74.81 in D 39.38 in
Antique French Marquetry, Ormolu and Jasperware Bureau du Roi by Beurdeley
By Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley
Located in London, GB
Antique French marquetry, ormolu and jasperware Bureau du Roi by Beurdeley French, c. 1890 Height 151cm, width 190cm, depth 100cm The Bureau du Roi, also known as the secrétaire à ...
Ormolu
Large Rococo Style Porcelain Chandelier by Meissen
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
Large Rococo style porcelain chandelier by Meissen German, late 19th Century Height 118cm, diameter 97cm This magnificent chandelier is an exceptional example of the Rococo styl...
Porcelain
$35,252
H 50.4 in Dm 33.47 in
Italian 19th Century Two-Tiers Capodimonte Porcelain Chandelier with Roses
By Capo Di Monte
Located in Firenze, IT
This magnificent antique 19th Century two-tiers porcelain chandelier has an exceptional quality. It was crafted by the renowned Italian Capodimonte pottery manufactory. This enchant...
Porcelain
$518,442 / set
H 114.5 in W 35.5 in D 5 in
19th Century, Monumental Carved Boiserie Panels from Lartington Hall
Located in London, GB
The Lartington hall carved Boiserie panels by Signor Anton Leone Bulletti. A highly important suite of eight carved and patinated wood panels commissioned by Monsignor Thomas Edw...
Wood, Pine
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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