Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants

French Louis XV-Style (19th Century) bronze dore 8-arm chandelier featuring a Baroque scroll form frame and sculptural cobalt porcelain body with 3 applied bronze fleur de lis decora...

An impressive Louis XV style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal and moulded-glass fifteen-light chandelier. The corona with branches and three concealed bulbs. The cage frame issuing fifteen branches supporting baluster glass...

The metal scrolling caged frame profusely hung with clear and colored crystal beads and fruitage including lemons, pears, and apples in amethyst, amber, and ruby; issuing twelve outs...

A large and important Louis XV style gilt bronze and cut-crystal thirty-light cage chandelier. French, circa 1870. This fine chandelier is of a grand scale at 223 cm high (88 ...

A fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze nine-light chandelier. This impressive gilt-bronze tripartite baluster form cage chandelier is cast with a central vase issuing flowers and nine ...

A fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal twenty-light chandelier by La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat, French, Circa 1890.

French Louis XV-style (20th Century) bronze dore and crystal 8 arm chandelier.

French Louis XV-style (20th Century) bronze dore and crystal 8 arm chandelier

French Louis XV-Style bronze chandelier with 10 arms and filigree bobeche and finial bottom with canopy.

French Louis XV-Style bronze and crystal chandelier with various style crystal drops & finials and 8 candlestick holders & 8 light sockets.

An Important Louis XV style twelve-light rock crystal and gilt-bronze chandelier. French, circa 1850. An important Louis XV style twelve-light rock crystal and gilt-bronze chandelier, surmounted by a floral corona, issuing six scrolling branches, each terminating with three circular drip pans and nozzles, decorated all over with drops, grapes, apples and baluster shaped shades. The etymology of the word "crystal" has its origins in the Ancient Greek word for ice ‘krystallos’. Rock crystal which is always cool to the touch they considered to be ice permanently frozen by the Gods. For thousands of years Rock crystal has been prized for its beauty and remarkable ability to refract light. When cut and polished, the inherent striations and inclusions of the crystal create a refracted light richer in luminosity than that of manmade crystal or glass. These properties have made it highly desirable throughout history; its scarcity ensuring its use was limited to all but the most luxurious of decorative items. Rock crystal is in reality a natural quartz, pure monocrystals of siliceous oxide. A material of exceptional hardness with indices of light refraction close to that of a diamond, quartz has been mined and worked since antiquity. In the Middle Ages, this rare material was used almost exclusively on religious objects. A prohibitively expensive material, Cristal de roche was first mined in France in small quantities in the 17th century and its rarity forced artisans to innovate. The imitation of crystal began in Venice in the 15th century - the art of the glassmaker being to recreate the limpidity and luminosity of rock crystal. To do this, the glassmakers invented a 'crystal' made in reality of glass combined with a mixture of potassium, silicon, manganese and lead oxide heated to between 1200 and 1500 degrees. This crystal imitated rock crystal, although it displays a metallic colouring. This crystal de roche should not be confused with what is now called crystal. The latter was a development of 18th century Bohemia and, subsequently France with the Manufacture Royale de cristaux. Rock crystal first appears as small beads on candelabras and chandeliers - not yet called lustres - in the 17th century. At the beginning of the 18th century the discovery of new seams in Central Europe allowed the mining of larger blocks of crystal, which could in turn be worked into pyramids, drops and stars. The highest value was historically based, like diamonds, on two things - the weight and the clarity or limpidity of the crystal. The clearer the better, hence the phrase d'une très belle eau when referring to crystal. Perhaps the earliest recorded-reference in France is in 1697, when Louis XIV offered twelve grand 'lustres' in 'cristal de roche' to the King of Siam. Louis XV also possessed a chandelier with twelve branches in his chambre a coucher at Versailles which had been delivered by Delaroue and Slodtz. This was commented on by the duc de Luynes: 'on a mis dans la chambre du roi, un chandelier en cristal de roche d...

French Louis XV-style (19/20th Century) gilt bronze chandelier with 4 scroll arms and 2 cupid mermaid figures on a center shaft with a scroll top and bottom.

French Louis XV-style (19/20th Century) blue and white Sevres porcelain 4 arm chandelier with bronze dore trim.

French Louis XV-style (19th Century) pink and white Sevres porcelain 4 arm chandelier with bronze dore trim.

A highly unusual silver bronze chandelier constructed with eight scroll leaf arms supporting candle nozzles and drip pans suspended on two spiralled vines from the top crown the cent...

A very fine chandelier in the Louis XV taste. Constructed utilizing finely cast, and chased gilt bronze, and handblown glass adornments and prisms of cut lead glass crystal; the ...

This vintage Baccarat chandelier uses gold leafed and hand hammered iron. This spectacular fixture also features a large array of cut crystal pendants in different sizes and styles a...

A monumental Louis XV Style gilt bronze and cut-glass forty-eight light chandelier. French, circa 1885. The frame is variously stamped with numbers and 'JL'. This rare and...