Portieux Bronze and Crystal Chandelier

A magnificent late 19th century gilt bronze and crystal chandelier. 36 lights on alternating curved foliate arms. Central stem has greek...

Twelve light gilt bronze and crystal chandelier, French, early 19th century. Unique Georgian and faceted diamond shaped crystals. Height is chandelier only...

Brass and crystal chandelier. Twelve lights around ring, and three in the center of the basket. C. 1920. Dimensions: Height: 32" Width (Diameter): 32?.

Louis XV style chandelier with original aged gilt bronze finish. 12 Lights, with crystal stem pieces. Clear, smoky, and rose colored pendalogue crystals with rosettes. UL Listed Di...

Mid 20th Century Spanish brass and crystal chandelier. Solid brass with light patina. Five arms. Teardrop crystals. Material: b...

Signed Martinez Y Ortz Chandelier, Twelve Lights, Roped Crystal arms and large pendalog Crystals. Spain, C. 1980. Completely Cleaned and Rewired. Ready for installation. Dimensions:...

This chandelier is made with a dark bronze frame, which has then been draped with beautiful crystal plaquettes. A crystal ball hangs from the finial. The c...

A French silvered bronze and crystal chandelier

Important antique Baccarat bronze and cut crystal two-tier fifteen-light chandelier. All the bronze parts and gilding are guaranteed original Baccarat....

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...

An exceptional Art Nouveau chandelier, dating to circa 1905, the bronze rope twist chandelier arms are adorned with smaller twists of rope and leaf decorative flourishes. The three branches of the chandelier each bears a cut glass shade in the form of a rose, that surrounds the lamp fitting. To the centre is a large bronze torchiere, with a cut glass flame shade...

A large and impressive Empire style bronze and crystal pendant chandelier with graduated square crystals beads and gilt bronze hardware. Newly rewired. France, early 20th century.