Portieux Vallerysthal Lighting

19th c. French Bronze and Crystal 6 light Chandelier. Newly wired.

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.  

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...

French gilt bronze and crystal four-light chandelier with floral decorative canopy, a fluted centered column supporting a six arm lower lit crystal basket, completed with a decorativ...

French gilt bronze and crystal six light chandelier with centered crystal column and floral motif. Early 19th Century

French gilt bronze and crystal five light chandelier with amber prisms and floral motif. Chandelier was originally candle powered and has been electrified. 19th Century

French gilt bronze and crystal six light chandelier with centered crystal sphere and original crystal ball. Originally candle powered and has been electrified. Early 19th Century

French gilt bronze and crystal five light chandelier with centered crystal bulbous column and decorative scrolled floral motif. Originally candle powered and has been electrified. E...

An exceptional Art Nouveau chandelier, dating to circa 1905, the bronze rope twist chandelier arms are adorned with smaller twists of rope and leaf decorative flourishes. The three branches of the chandelier each bears a cut glass shade in the form of a rose, that surrounds the lamp fitting. To the centre is a large bronze torchiere, with a cut glass flame shade...

Antique French Louis XV Style bronze and crystal chandelier. Stunning French Louis XV style bronze and crystal chandelier...

French gilt bronze and crystal three tiered fifteen light chandelier with floral swags, decorative ribbon arms, and hanging crystal tiered straws. Late 19th Century

This chandelier is made with a dark bronze frame, which has then been draped with beautiful crystal plaquettes. A crystal ball hangs from the finial. The c...