French Gilt Bronze and Crystal Sphere Chandelier. Originally Candles. C. 1840

French gilt bronze and crystal twelve light chandelier with upper crystal column, centered graduated crystal ball, scrolled arms with crystal spheres and terminating with a graduated...

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

French gilt bronze and crystal five light chandelier with scrolled arms and floral bobeches, intertwined bead work, and amethyst leaf prisms. Originally candle powered and has been ...

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

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...

A French silvered bronze and crystal chandelier

Elegant French Louis XVI style gilt bronze and cut crystal five-arm chandelier of Baccarat quality with faceted cut crystal prisms, chains and faceted cut crystal shaft.