Gilt Tole French Chandelier with Porcelain Flowers & 16 Lights
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt tole chandelier with porcelain flowers, tole acanthus leaf & 16 lights.
Early 20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Tôle
Gilt Tole French Chandelier with Porcelain Flowers & 16 Lights
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt tole chandelier with porcelain flowers, tole acanthus leaf & 16 lights.
Tôle
Sold|$2,495
1920s French Tole Gilded Chandelier
Located in High Point, NC
A refined and harmonious tole chandelier, decorative, but ordered. This 1920s decorative French chandelier has been electrified to modern standards, and fitted with E14 sockets.
Tôle, Gold Leaf
19th Century French Painted Tole & Crystal Chandelier
Located in Atlanta, GA
A crystal and tole chandelier with lion head detail and amethyst colored beading.
Tôle
Hollywood Regency Style Pagoda Gilded Gold Iron and Tole Faux Bamboo Chandelier
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Super stylish Italian gilded Iron and tole chandelier having 6 arms with faux bamboo design.
Metal, Iron
Sold|$1,942
Italian Vintage Tole Floral Chandelier
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian Vintage Tole Floral Chandelier, circa 1950s A stunning hand-painted Italian tole chandelier, crafted in the mid-20th century with exquisite attention to detail.
Metal, Tôle
Sold
Chandelier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A tole chandelier.
Sold|$7,800
Antique 18th Century Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Tole Chandelier with Dresden Figure
Crystal, Iron, Tôle
Sold|$1,497
1960s French Palm Tole Toleware Chandelier
By Maison Jansen
Located in London, GB
1960s French palm tole chandelier. Beautiful hand-painted, six-arm ceiling light in the style of Parisian design house Maison Jansen.
Tôle
Magnificent Large and Ornate Tole Bird and Flower Motife Chandelier
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Fantastic six-arm vintage tole chandelier with a verdigris patina, quite large and with wonderful whimsical birds, roses and decoration.
Metal
A Late 19th Century Whimsical Red and Gold Tole Pagoda Chandelier
Located in London, GB
France, circa 1880 A rare late nineteenth century red tole chandelier, in whimsical Chinoiserie taste, with double pagoda top and six drop lights.
Metal
Sold|$10,500
19th c Gilded and Silvered Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two tone Wooden and Tole Chandelier Composed Of 19thc. Elements
Tôle
Wonderful Moroccan Tole Vintage Mirrored Crystal Fixture Hand-Painted Chandelier
Located in Roslyn, NY
This wonderful gilt flowers on green and red candle cups add to the charm of this vintage Moroccan Style tole chandelier with mirrored accents and crystal prisms.
Sold|$1,800
Multicolored Crystal Italian Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fabulous eight arms iron & gilded tole Chandelier, surrounded with 8 lites & one in the center
Crystal, Iron, Tôle
Italian Five Light Gilded Tole Floral Sunburst Chandelier
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1930s tole chandelier with slender leaves, original ceiling canopy and sockets in each of the five tulip or lily form flowers.
Metal
Sold|$1,850
Flower Chandelier
Located in North Miami, FL
elegant early french tole chandelier with porcelain flowers
Sold|$5,000
Italian Chandelier
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gilt Tole Chandelier With Cut Crystals. Eight Arms.
Sold|$7,000
SET OF FOUR PETITE CHANDELIERS
Located in New Orleans, LA
GILDED TOLE CHANDELIERS WITH CRYSTAL PENDANTS - EACH WITH SIX BRANCHES - COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL SILK CORDS
Tôle
A North Italian Painted Tole and Gilt Chandelier
Located in London, GB
Italy, circa 1890 A fine late nineteenth century painted tole chandelier of six arms with gilded foliate elements, central urn and flower husks, now electrified for electricity.
Metal
Sold|$6,500
Antique Wrought Iron Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique Italian wrought iron tole chandelier.
Wrought Iron
French Empire Style Tole and Bronze Chandelier
Located in Austin, TX
French Empire style gilded bronze and green painted tole chandelier with six branches, cast floral details and acorn finial and matching canopy.
Bronze
Sold|$1,500
Chinoiserie Iron Faux Bamboo Chandelier
By Phyllis Morris
Located in Redding, CT
This 8 armed Chinoiserie faux bamboo tole chandelier has a nice patina and will complement any room.
Tôle
Sold|$2,200
Pagoda style 6 lite chandelier
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#1-2112a Pagoda style tole chandelier
Metal
Sold|$1,950
Circa 1950's ItalianTole Chandelier
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#1-1272 Four lights tole chandelier.
Metal
Gilt Tole Eight-Light Chandelier with Crystal Drops
Located in Astoria, NY
A luxurious tole chandelier in the Hollywood Regency style, with eight arms, each with black faux candle socket covers, on frame comprised of gilded metal foliage, trimmed with cryst...
Crystal, Metal
Sold|$2,250
Circa 1940's Country french chandelier
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Hand painted tole chandelier with wood beads
Monumental Regency Italian Tole Metal Palm Frond & Flowers Chandelier - 18 Arms
Located in Kennesaw, GA
It is a huge Hollywood Regency era Italian tole chandelier with climbing palm fronds and floral sprigs.
Metal
Organic Modern Italian White Tole / Toleware Metal Leaf Chandelier, 9 Arms
Located in Kennesaw, GA
It is a Modern interpretation of the traditional tole chandelier. It looks like wind blown leaves circling the stem.
Metal
Sold|$8,800
Antique Italian Painted Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1920's Italian painted tole chandelier with 15 lights. Measurements: diameter: 33" height: 31".
Metal
1930s Painted Iron and Tole 8-Light Chandelier from France
Located in Dallas, TX
This graceful French eight-light chandelier is made of painted iron and gilt tole. The iron has been painted a medium forest green and the rest of the ornamentation is gilt tole.
Iron, Tôle
Sold|$2,750
Gilt Tole Leaf Chandelier
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is an uncommon form of early 20th century gilt tole chandelier that features a hand-carved and gold leafed urn from which emanate three upward scrolling leafy vines and six leaf...
Metal, Gold Leaf
Vintage 1950s Spanish Fern Leaf Tole Chandelier with Layered Fronds
Located in London, GB
This ceiling light was made in Spain in the 1950s and is crafted from toleware. Designed to resemble a cluster of fern leaves, the fixture features hand-cut metal fronds arranged in ...
Metal
Great looking tole painted leamon chandelier from the 1950's
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A great looking Tole chandelier painted white and green streaks with wood yellow painted lemons hanging from many places.
Tôle
French 19th Century Yellow Tôle Six-Light Chandelier with Painted Floral Motifs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French yellow tôle six-light chandelier from the 19th century, with hand painted floral décor.
Tôle
Sold|$975 / item
Vintage Italian Gilt Tole 6-Light Chandelier, circa 1940-1960
Located in Highwood, IL
Vintage Italian 6-light gilt tole chandelier that we estimate was probably made post WWII up to the 1960’s.
Steel
Sold|$950
Vintage Italian Chandelier
Located in Pasadena, CA
Vintage Italian Gold Leaf Tole Chandelier with White Flowers and . Newly Rewired.
Polychrome Italian Brass Chandelier with Porcelain Flowers
Located in Houston, TX
Lovely turn of the century tole chandelier with green leaves and multi-colored porcelain flowers.
Brass
Large Empire Style Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1920 French bronze and tole chandelier with 12 lights. Original gilt finish, with crystal chains on body.
Pretty Vintage Italian Giltmetal 6 Arm Chandelier
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Lovely Italian vintage tole chandelier having pretty acanthus leaf decoration and flowers.
Metal
French 19th Century Painted Tôle Three-Light Chandelier with Flowers and Vines
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French painted tôle three-light chandelier from the 19th century, with flower and vine motifs.
Tôle
Faux Bamboo Pagoda Chandelier Vintage Chinese Chippendale Metal Palm Beach
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Beautiful vintage Chinese Chippendale, faux bamboo metal tole chandelier, six lights. Original finish, working order.
Metal
Vintage Italian Tole 6 Arm Floral Chandelier
Located in Centennial, CO
Just in time for spring, a truly charming vintage Italian tole chandelier crafted out of black wrought iron and decorated with beautifully painted flowers in shades of green, pink, b...
Iron
Sold|$9,500
Bronze Empire Style Chandeliers
Located in Austin, TX
A rare pair of French Empire style bronze and tole chandeliers; each boasting eight branches stylized to represent flying swans.
Bronze, Tôle
1950s Hollywood Regency Italian Gold Gilt Tole White Porcelain Roses Chandelier
Located in Charleston, SC
This six-light tole chandelier is in near-perfect vintage condition and absolutely beautiful.
Metal
Large Vintage Italian Cream Tole Flower Chandelier
Located in San Francisco, CA
A beautiful example of Italian tole chandeliers, this circa 1940s piece is a large bouquet- completely flowers and leaves, traveling all the way up the stem, with gold rope detail bi...
Metal
French Decorative Tole Wheat Sheaf Chandelier 'circa 1960s'
Located in London, GB
French decorative tole chandelier (circa 1960s). A classic wheat sheaf-shaped lighting fixture with five branches extending to ornamental bulb holders, each with a surround of leaves.
Metal
Large Currey & Co Tole Leaf Hollywood Regency Six Light Chandelier.
By Currey & Co.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Large Currey & Co Tole Leaf Hollywood Regency Six Light Chandelier.
Metal
Vintage Coastal Regency Patinated Metal Tole Pineapple Chandelier
By Currey & Co.
Located in North Fort Myers, FL
DescriptionAdd a tropical regency statement to your space with this late-20th century metal tole chandelier featuring sculptural pineapple motifs and metal tole leaves.
Metal
French Rococo Style Gilt-Iron & Rock Crystal 12-Light Chandelier, by Nesle, Inc.
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exceptional French rococo style gilt-iron and tole rock crystal twelve-light chandelier by Nesle, Inc.; the large-scaled gilt-iron and tole chandelier emanating 12 scrolled beaded...
A Massive Pair of French 1970's Gray Painted & Gilt Chandeliers
Located in San Francisco, CA
A massive and lyrical pair of French 1970's 2-tiered 12-light gray painted metal and gilt tole chandeliers;removed from the Hotel Ritz, Paris; each with foliate corona above 2 gradua...
Pink and Cream Tole 5 Light Palm Leaf Chandelier in the Style of Maison Baguès
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful topsy-turvy Hollywood Regency palm leaf motif tole chandelier. This whimsical piece of lighting features 5 arms with candlestick bulbs.
Metal
Magnificent French Empire Bronze Swan Chandelier
Located in Austin, TX
Rare French Empire style gilt bronze and (dark green) tole chandelier with six branches featuring flying swans details, floral and acorn cast details, and matching canopy with decora...
Bronze, Metal
Midcentury Toleware Chandelier with Porcelaine Rose Pampilles circa 1950s France
Located in Trensacq, FR
A pretty French midcentury painted tole chandelier with 55 hand-crafted rose flowers and five 'faux' candle lights all nestling amongst green and gold scrolling foliage.
Metal
French 19th Century Tôle Five-Light Chandelier with Painted Floral Décor, Wired
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French tôle five-light chandelier from the 19th century with hand-painted floral décor and antiqued glass panels, professionally rewired for the USA.
Tôle
An Unusual Greco-Roman Style Bronze Chandelier with Tragedy Masks
Located in London, GB
A late nineteenth century French painted tole chandelier with twelve candle arms terminating in unfolding leaf drip trays, the body adorned with twisting vines, leaves and polychrome...
Bronze
1950s Italian Faux Bamboo Palm Tree Chandelier
Located in Hastings, GB
Faux bamboo palm tree chandelier 1950s, Italy Stunning large faux bamboo palm tree tole chandelier Fabulous original hand painted color and detailing 5 arms with single bulb hold...
Metal
Large Polychrome Wrought Iron Stags Chandelier from France, 1900s
Located in Dallas, TX
The chandelier is composed of a mix of scrolling hand wrought iron, gilt stamped tole, and two large stags.
Wrought Iron
Sold|$4,800
CHARMING TOLE PINEAPPLE CHANDELIER
Located in Essex, MA
Tole and Wooden Pineapple Chandelier, Gilded
Tôle
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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