Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Chandelier, 1940

Chandelier with 6 1940 lights with barrel and glass cups in the Adnet style and green lacquered bronze. Dimension height 67 cm for a diameter of 51 cm. Additional information: M...

Bronze and opaline suspension chandelier from the 1900s, 124 cm high and 39 cm wide. Additional information: Material: Bronze.

Chandelier with pendants and charms 1940 style gilded metal in the spirit of Maison Baguès with 6 lights, height 105 cm for a diameter of 60 cm. Additional information: Material...

Chandelier with pendants and charms 1940 style gilded metal in the spirit of Maison Baguès with 6 lights, height 105 cm for a diameter of 60 cm. Additional information: Material...

An Empire style very finely chased gilt-bronze and patinated bronze eight-light chandelier, French, circa 1880. Measures: Height 46 in. (116.84 cm.), diameter 37 in. (93.98 cm.)

1940s French silver and bronze four arm chandelier. Decorative harp design center column. Newly rewired Candelabra bulbs Fixture height only 19" Fixtu...

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...

Wedgwood and gilt bronze six-light chandelier Circa 1890 Measures: Height 55 in. (139.70 cm.), diameter 30 in. (76.20 cm.).