Orientalist Gasolier Lantern

This highly unusual gas fixture has been converted to electricity but in every other respect is unchanged. From a central sphere three arms extend, each with charming original gas co...

Antique brass oriental themed lantern, the compressed spherical body pierced with stylized designs, the crown and base modeled with leaves, with amber glass liner panels.

An antique Louis XV style brass hexagonal lantern, supported by six scrolling arms later fitted for electricity with a three-light cluster. This was originally a gas fixture.

Louis XV style three-light hexagonal lantern fitted with beveled glass panels , the frame applied with foliate forms.

This charming whimsical French lantern interprets playfully the Louis XV style, retaining its essence while abandoning formality. The hexagon frame and ornamental acanthus and leaves...

This large and impressive lantern was originally fitted for gas. It is tapering and hexagonal with each paneled side set with the original beveled grass plate. A broad cast band is a...

This Neoclassical French Bronze Gasolier Lantern is made of solid cast bronze chased with fine bronze casting still retaining the original geometric beveled glass panels. This Regency Style Lantern...

A fine whimsical French Belle Époque gilt and ebonized bronze cherub four-light gasolier pendant chandelier. The scrolled acanthus gilt-bronze frame, with its original gas key-valves...

A fine whimsical French Belle Époque gilt and ebonized bronze cherub four-light gasolier pendant chandelier. The scrolled acanthus gilt-bronze frame, with its original gas key-valves...

A unique antique Moroccan Islamic style octagonal form reticulated brass and green gilt decorated glass multi light lantern chandelier of fine detailed embellished with Islamic writi...

American (glass attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts), circa 1830-1840. Glass, blown, partially frosted, and wheel cut, with cast and die-rolled brass, patinated. This hanging lamp is typical of the production of such lanterns by the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, during the 1830s, and perhaps as late as the early 1840s. The present example is an unusually elaborate specimen with its overall frosting and cutting. In their The Glass Industry in Sandwich, II (1989), Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser quote Boston & Sandwich Glass Company manager Deming Jarves on the fabrication of lamps of this general type (p. 225 no. 2398). These hanging lanterns could be supplied with a candle or with a peg lamp...

Bronze and crystal lantern. Measures: Diameter 22 cm. Height fixture 55 cm. Total height including the chain and canopy 105 cm. Weight 5 kg.