Antique French Renaissance Revival Gold Bronze 9 Light Chandelier, Circa 1910's.

Wonderful Antique French Empress Eugenie Style Gold Bronze 6 Light Chandelier, Circa 1910.

Magnificent Antique French Gold Bronze and Baccarat Cut Crystal 30 Light Chandelier, Circa 1900-1920. Substantial draping of baccarat prisms and beads.

Antique French Art Nouveau bronze D'Ore chandelier, Circa 1900-1910.

Petite Antique French Louis XVI Gold Bronze 6 Light Chandelier, Circa 1890-1900.

Antique French "Empress Eugenie" Gold Bronze 12 Light Chandelier, Circa 1890's.

Wonderful Antique French Louis XV style gold bronze 12-light chandelier, circa 1890's. Delicate Gold Bronze Flowers and Leaves throughout.

Rare bronze chandelier with as many as eight arms with stunning alabaster shades. The time and effort that was put into making impressive and top quality lamps in the beginning of the 20th century is amazing. This rare and all handcrafted chandelier is a great example of such an amazing work of lighting art from that era. The beautifully crafted figural body of this chandelier, all the arms and all the 'cups' holding the sockets and shades are made of cast bronze in relief. Just look at the soldier, the businessman drinking his beer, the beautiful female and all the impressive and rich scrolling details around them. Before the body with all these figures could have been cast in liquid bronze, all these figures first would have had to been hand-sculpted into another material (often wood). From that other material molds would have to be made first and those molds would have then been filled with liquid bronze. After the bronze was cooled and set, the cast would have been removed from the mold, polished and patinated. This would have to be done for all the arms and 'socket holders' as well and finally all the parts would have to be drilled and put together with nuts and bolts. I won't go into the process of how the perfectly shaped alabaster shades and all the antique sockets...

This chandelier has its orginial crystals.

Antique French 8 Light Bronze and Crystal Chandelier, circa 1890-1910.

A brass and painted bronze Renaissance Revival chandelier with six scroll arms, with scalloped bobeches; in rich shades of brown. Accented with a top hook and ring finial; new, ivory, poly-beeswax...

Antique French Crystal and Gold Bronze Chandelier, Circa 1910-1920.

An antique, circa 1900 - 1920, French Empire style eight arm bronze chandelier with ram’s head details. This eight light chandelier has scroll and acanthus leaf details at each fluted and curved arm. The bobeches have a faceted underside and a running pearl ornament...