Rock Crystal Chandeliers and Pendants

An impressive and large scale Italian 18th century giltwood and gilt iron chandelier with clear and blue colored crystals and glass garlands. The twelve ...

Attractive neoclassical style hand-forged wrought iron dressed with hand-carved and polished rock crystal and smokey rock crystal six-light chandelier. A...

Fine antique clear crystal chandelier having 12 lights. It is in the empire style with the lights surrounding the Outer rim of the fixture. The wiring is good and the crystal is Comp...

The elegant and finely carved giltwood central base with 18 "S" scrolled gilt bronze arms decorated with hundreds of precious crystal drops creating garlands joined by different leve...

A stunning 18th century Chandelier from the Genoa region of Italy. Beautifully crafted in giltwood and crystal with 12 lights. The statement of its surrounding.

Exquisite hand carved and hand polished rock crystal silver leafed Borghese bronze tree chandelier. Exhibiting a truly beautiful Modern style naturalis...

Outstanding and elegant neoclassical style hand forged wrought iron 12-light chandelier, dressed with hand carved and hand polished fine rock crystal prisms, all arms are beautifully...

Adorable French Empire-style crystal glass and brass chandelier from the 1950s. This lovely piece has a brass and metal frame hung with chains of crystal glass beads forming a basket...

Classic model for this French Empire chandelier, perfect in any particular: gilt bronze, classic swan, green nail, 6 lights. Perfect over Your table or sleeping room...

Rock crystal chandelier, round frame composed of beveled rectangular quartz elements interspersing three different sizes. Inner circle containing ten triangular crystals with rounded...

French Baccarat gilt bronze and crystal twelve-arm chandelier with a gilt floral canopy, cascading crystal prisms flanking a centered spiral crystal column , twelve gilt floral scrol...

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...