Antique Brass Chandelier with Grotesque Masks

Brass white flower chandelier with six arms. Diameter 50 cm. Height fixture 52 cm. Total height with the chain is 100 cm.

Brass chandelier with porcelain flowers and green leaves. Total height with the chain is 100 cm. Diameter 50 cm. Height fixture 52 cm...

Elegant brass gilded ceiling light with crystal flowers. Diameter 23.6" - 60 cm. Height fixture 17.3" - 44 cm. Total height including the chain i...

Italian Vintage Brass Chandelier with Hand-Painted Roses – Mid-Century Design A mid-20th century Italian brass chandelier, beautifully crafted and adorned with hand-painted brass ro...

Large Brass Turn of the Century Chandelier from a Colorado mountain town courthouse, 35" round x 35" high, Stunning metalwork and large crystals, the original 18" of chainwork is exq...

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...

Chandelier Mezzo double with structure in brass in antique finish. With handmade clear glass. With six bulbs, lamp holder type E14, max 40 watt. Bulbs not included. Also available...

Chandelier Mezzo Large with structure in brass in antique finish. With hand-made clear glass. With three Bulbs, lamp holder type E14, max 40 watt. Bulbs not included. Adjustable chai...