French Gilded Bronze and Crystal Bell Form Chandelier

A rare sculptural steer horn chair. New upholstery in a Clarence House embroidered velvet fabric by Kazumi Yoshida depicting dogs branches, nature, an ...

An Asian form mirror by studio Craft artist David N Ebner. Maple wood with a unique black custom graphite pigmentation which is exclusive to Mr. Ebner. Through the use of stripped...

A large antique bronze two handled decorated planter.

David Ebner one of the foremost makers of American contemporary furniture, and pivotal to his career was Mr Ebner's outstanding inclusion in "Exploration II" The New Furniture at the...

A beautiful crystal chandelier with hand painted bronze ring with foliate and flora designs supporting the elegant 8 gilded bronze arms also with foliate and flora design, which ter...

A very important thirty-five lights crystal and gilded bronze chandelier. The centered stem is made up of baluster-and-bowl-shaped cut-crystal pieces, all of very high-standard quality. Adorned with an elegant gilt bronze mount forming the light-arms, alternating bouquets of six and one, all decorated with climbing ivy...

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...

Bronze and crystal pagoda form diminutive chandelier. Fine Hollywood Regency chandelier of cast bronze and circular crystal prisms. Having four lights, ...