French Gilt Bronze and Crystal Floral Chandelier, Circa 1850

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 amber crystal seven tiered chandelier with centered crystal column and intertwined beading between arms. Originally candle powered and has been electrified. ...

French gilt bronze four arm eight light chandelier with decorative floral medallions, acanthus scrolled arms, original frosted etched globes, and terminating on crystal circular basket...

French gilt bronze twelve-light chandelier with centered bulbous decorative floral column, acanthus scrolled arms, terminating on circular gadrooned bulbous finial. Originally candle...

Finely chiseled gilt bronze and cut crystal Empire elegant chandelier with six arms. Six E 14 light bulbs.

Finely chiseled gilt bronze and cut crystal Empire elegant chandelier with six arms. Cleaned and re-wired, in full working order and ready to use. In excellent vintage condition. Si...

Luxurious Crystal Chandelier with gild bronze frame, for 10 light horns. France, circa 1960s. Richly Decorated Chandelier with decorative elements and pendants made of transparent ...

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...