Unique Gilt & Patina Bronze, Crystal and Wedgwood Porcelain Chandelier

An exceptional late 19th century gilt bronze and crystal fourteen light basket chandelier. The crown connected to the body by a long, floral and curtain designed stem with three set...

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...

A palatial and rare late 19th century gilt bronze and baccarat crystal thirty-nine-light chandelier. Multifaceted and shaped crystal, beaded arms with crystal swags, cut crystal central column, twelve perimeter and twenty-seven-tiered interior lights, bobeche cups. If you are looking for a chandelier, a lantern or sets of sconces, Charles Cheriff...

A Nice Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze and Crystal Sixteen Light Basket Chandelier The cut crystal top with a gilt bronze rim, beaded strings run down to the basket, the base with a ...

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

Of cartouche outline, with rock crystal baluster shaft with acanthus scroll branches of light and spires, hung with large rock crystal plaques, facetted drops and rosettes, terminate...

Of cartouche outline, with rock crystal baluster shaft with acanthus scroll branches of light and spires, hung with large rock crystal plaques, facetted drops and rosettes, terminate...

A circa 1900 French gilt bronze 6-arm chandelier with a porcelain vase center and hand-painted porcelain flowers. Measurements: Height: 34" Diameter: 30".