Italian Tole Chandelier with Polychrome Flowers, Mid-Century / Hollywood Regency
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian Tole Chandelier with Polychrome Flowers, Mid-Century / Hollywood Regency, 1950s Charming Italian tole chandelier from the 1950s, richly decorated with hand-painted polychrom...
Metal, Tôle
Vintage Italian Tole Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1950's Italian painted tole chandelier with 4 lights. Measurements: Current drop: 40" Diameter: 32"
Metal
$24,000 / item
Large Italian Tole Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A large circa 1950's patinated tole chandelier with 12 lights. Openwork cup holders depicting birds. Measurements: Drop: 40" Diameter: 52"
Metal
Gilt Italian Tole Chandelier with Shades
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1940s Italian gilt metal six-light chandelier with shades. Measurements: Height of body 26.25" Diameter 24".
Metal
$599Sale Price|20% Off
Large Floral Vintage Italian Tole Chandelier
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Presenting a unique and wonderful, large Italian wood and tole chandelier featuring scrollwork and tassels.
Metal
Italian Tôle Chandelier with Porcelain Flowers, 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A cheery patinated Italian six-light tôle flower chandelier from the 1960s.
Metal
Midcentury Italian Tole Chandelier, Iron with Floral Design, 1950s
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Chandelier from the 1950s in iron and painted with a natural vintage patina. It has six candle lights surrounded with flowers and leaves in different shapes and colors. The lightbulb...
Iron, Tôle
Faux Bamboo Palm Leaf Italian Tole Chandelier 1960's
Located in Hastings, GB
Palm leaf and faux bamboo tole chandelier, 1960s A beautiful chandelier featuring polychrome painted faux bamboo stems with palm leaf fronds throughout There are 5 bulb holders, E14...
Metal
$1,776Sale Price|25% Off
Mid Century Italian Tole Chandelier, Iron with Floral Design, 1950s
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Chandelier from the 1950s in iron and painted with a natural vintage patina. It has six candle lights surrounded with flowers and leaves in different shapes and colors. The lightbulb...
Iron, Tôle
Large Faux Bamboo Palm Leaf Italian Tole Chandelier 1960's
Located in Hastings, GB
Very Large palm leaf and faux bamboo tole chandelier, 1960s A beautiful chandelier featuring polychrome painted faux bamboo stems with palm leaf fronds throughout There are 6 bul...
Metal
Antique Italian Tole Chandelier, Hand-Crafted Metal, Six Lights, 1940s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1446 Italian 6 light chandelier replica of an ancient Roman oil chandelier rewired
Metal
Pair of Double Tiered Italian Tole Chandeliers with Floral Motif, Sold Individua
Located in New York, NY
A pair of large circa 1950's Italian painted tole twelve-light chandeliers with foliage and floral motif on the body. 12 lights.
Metal
Elegant 1950s Italian Tole Floral Chandelier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful and colorful 1950s Italian tole chandelier, the color and the patina is much nicer in person.
Metal
Vintage Painted Tole Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1960's Italian tole chandelier with 3 lights. Measurements: Drop: 21" Diameter: 15"
Metal
Vintage Tole Chandelier with Porcelain Flowers
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1950's Italian tole chandelier with porcelain flowers. Original painted finish.
Metal
Tole Chandelier with Five Light Opaline Glass Globes
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian tole chandelier with five opaline glass globes and light blue and white leaves.
Metal
Italian Tole Floral Chandelier, Hand-Painted, 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A charming mid-century Italian tole chandelier, handcrafted in the Florentine tradition, circa 1960–1970.
Metal, Tôle
$1,365Sale Price|19% Off
1960s Large Italian Metal Lely Tole Chandelier
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Charming 1960s Italian tole chandelier featuring an exuberant display of hand-crafted lilies.
Metal
Red Neoclassical Tole Chandelier, Europe, ca. 1950
Located in Antwerp, BE
Wiring is functional. Neoclassical chandelier, toleware pendant, painted metal lighting, Empire revival, Directoire style, Italian tole chandelier, Hollywood Regency chandelier, vin...
Metal
Italian Tole and Porcelain Flower Chandelier, Capodimonte Style
Located in Antwerp, BE
Romantic Italian tole chandelier with hand-painted porcelain flowers in delicate pastel tones.
Metal
Italian Tole Six-Light Fruit-Form Chandelier with Polychrome Leaves
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A sculptural and highly decorative Italian tole chandelier, dating to the mid-20th century (circa 1940s–1950s), featuring six gracefully scrolling arms adorned with hand-formed folia...
Metal
20th Century Italian Tole Floral Chandelier with Painted Leaves and Gilt Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
Evocative of romantic Mediterranean gardens, this mid-20th-century Italian tole chandelier is a poetic celebration of nature and craftsmanship.
Sheet Metal
Italian Hollywood Regency Tole Floral Bouquet Chandelier, Circa 1960
Located in COLMAR, FR
A captivating Italian tole chandelier of exceptional botanical detail, made in Italy circa 1960s in the Hollywood Regency manner.
Metal
OnElegant Mid-Century Italian Toleware Floral Chandelier with Hand-Painted Roses
Located in Antwerp, BE
Elegant Mid-Century Italian Toleware Floral Chandelier with Hand-Painted Roses and 8 Lights An elegant and romantic mid-century Italian tole chandelier featuring beautifully hand-cr...
Metal, Tôle
Italian Gilt Tôle Crystal Chandelier
Located in Winter Park, FL
An Italian Hollywood Regency style four-light gilt metal chandelier with tôle leaves and crystal prisms.
Crystal, Tôle
Italian Gilt Tôle Chandelier
By Hans Kögl
Located in Winter Park, FL
A Hollywood Regency style six-light gilt metal chandelier with tôle lily flowers. Original canopy and chain.
Metal
Italian Gilt Tôle Chandelier
By Hans Kögl
Located in Winter Park, FL
A Hollywood Regency style five-light gilt metal chandelier with tôle lily flowers. Original canopy and chain.
Metal
Italian Painted Tole Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1950's Italian painted tole eight-arm chandelier with foliage and floral motif.
Metal
Italian Handcut 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.
Metal
Italian Painted Tole Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1950's Italian nine-light painted tole and wood bead chandelier with original patina.
Crystal, Metal
Italian Tole Floral Tole Chandelier with Lilies
Located in New York, NY
Italian floral tole four arm chandelier. Lilly flowers in yellows, orange, and cream.
Steel
$2,650 / item
Italian Gilt Tole Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
Early 20th century Italian gilt tole and crystal chandelier. Circa 1920.
Crystal, Bronze
$2,800Sale Price / item|20% Off
1950s Large Tole Chandelier , Italy
By Maison Jansen, Banci Firenze
Located in St- Leonard, Quebec
Large elegant tole chandelier with hand painted delicate sculptural rose and leaf .
Sheet Metal
Italian Gilt Tole Basket Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century Italian gilt tole and crystal basket chandelier from Tuscany.
Crystal, Brass
Mid Century Tole Italian Flower Six-Light Chandelier
Located in Antwerp, BE
Tole Italian six-light chandelier with white flowers.
Metal, Tôle
One of Two Italian Tole Flowers Polychrome Chandeliers
Located in Antwerp, BE
Two Italian tole flower polychrome chandeliers.
Metal, Tôle
Italian Gilt Tole and Crystal Chandelier
Located in Redding, CT
Italian Gilt Tole Chandelier. Highly glamorous this six light chandelier would be perfect in a powder room or entryway.
Crystal, Iron
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.
Metal
18th Century Italian Tuscan Beaded Crystal and Tole Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
Fabulous 18th century Italian Tuscan beaded crystal tole chandelier with 6-light.
Crystal, Tôle
Vintage Italian Pink Tole Chandelier/Pendant Lamp
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Vintage Italian pink tole chandelier pendant lamp with hand-painted floral metalwork.
Metal
Italian Gilt Tole and Crystal Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
Nice quality 19th century Italian Gilt tole and crystal chandelier. Circa 1890.
Crystal
Huge Italian Tole Porcelain Flowers Polychrome Chandelier, circa 1890 Bouquet
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing 5 lights. Will be newly rewired with certified UL US sockets for the United States and appropriate sockets for all other countries and ready to hang. Original vibrant green c...
Tôle
Vintage Italian Tole Floral Chandelier with Daisy's
Located in New York, NY
Hollywood Regency tole floral chandelier with blue and green daisy's.
Metal
Italian Gilded Iron, Tole, & Crystal Directoire Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Directoire gilded iron & tole chandelier features tole candle cups & bobeches with a crown adorned with a bronze floriate design and crystal teardrops.
Crystal, Gold Plate, Iron
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
Italian Petit Tole with Porcelain Flowers Polychrome Chandelier, c. 1870
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Matching sconces listed as well. Housing 3 lights. Will be newly rewired with certified US UL sockets for the USA and appropriate sockets for all other countries and ready to hang. ...
Tôle
Italian 20th Century Iron and Tole Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Beautiful mid 20th century Italian chandelier made of iron and tole. The piece features five lights and detailed floriate bobeches.
Iron
Italian Wheat Sheaf Tole Chandelier with Original Painted Patina, 1970s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A wonderfully poetic Italian chandelier designed in the form of a hand-tied wheat sheaf, executed in finely crafted hand-painted tole metal during the 1970s.
Metal, Iron, Tôle
2 Italian Tole Flower Hollywood Regency Chandelier Florentine, 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian gold-plated metal flower chandelier/tole hanging lamp/tole chandelier.
Brass, Tôle
Italian Mid-20th Century Gilded Tole Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
This beautiful Louis XV chandelier is made of gilded tole, gold plating on tin, and joins our collection from Italy.
Gold, Tin
Hollywood Regency Tole Flower Chandelier
Located in Antwerp, BE
A large vintage tole five-light chandelier flower and leaf accents. Original paint finish in vibrant greens, turquoise and blue,white. Diameter 19.6" - 50 cm. Height fixture 22" - 5...
Metal, Tôle
$13,500
Silvered Tole Chandelier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hand pounded and cut silvered tole, 12 light chandelier from the area of Florence. Floral and foliate decoration with wax candle sleeves. Wired for US.
Tin
Italian Tole & Wood Bead Chandelier, Empire Style, 1950s
By Chapman Manufacturing Company
Located in Stamford, CT
1950s Italian tole and wood beaded chandelier in the Empire style most likely imported by Chapman Manufacturing Company.
Metal, Tin
Italian Empire Crystal Beaded and Gilt-Tole Chandelier
Located in Chireno, TX
Italian Empire crystal beaded and gilt-tole chandelier with seven lights (six arms and one central light).
Crystal, Iron, Tin, Gold Leaf
Wonderful Large Pineapple Form Painted White Tole Italian Mid Century Chandelier
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Large Pineapple Form Painted White Tole Italian Mid Century 6 Candelabra Light Chandelier, Ready To Install With Chain And Canopy
Tôle
Italian Tole And Crystal Foliate Chandelier, Basket-Form
Located in Norwood, NJ
A romantic and highly decorative Italian chandelier dating to the mid-20th century, crafted in gilt tole and embellished with hand-cut crystal drops.
Wrought Iron
$2,000Sale Price|39% Off
1940s Gilt Tole and Crystal Italian Chandelier
Located in Chicago, IL
Gilded metal foliage supported by five arms with lights. Many crystal drops embellish the fixture.
Crystal, Metal
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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