Girandoles

Pair of 19th century 'Girandole' Italian mirrored wall sconces Very beautiful brass 19th century Italian mirrored wall sconces in original condition with three arm candles. Bevelled mirrors A girandole from French, in turn from Italian girandola) is an ornamental branched candlestick or light fixture consisting of several lights, often resembling a small chandelier. Girandoles came into use about the second half of the 17th century, and were commonly made and used in pairs. A girandole has always been, comparatively speaking, a luxurious appliance for lighting, and in the great 18th-century period of French house decoration, the famous ciseleurs designed some exceedingly beautiful examples. A great variety of metals have been used for the purpose. Sometimes, as in the case of candlesticks, girandoles have been made in hardwoods. Gilded bronze has been a very frequent medium, but for table use silver is still the favorite material. Girandoles, or lighting devices, have also been attached to looking glasses and furniture. Some popular mirrors, especially the convex style, and some large dressing...

We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of signed CD Antique French Rococo Cherub Girandole wall light sconces A very good looking, decorative an...

this pair of elegant and decorative mirrors are finely carved of gilded wood, the carvings are leaf and vine forms, the bottoms of the mirrors having two original candle holder rest...

Pair of Louis XIV mirrors, each having a shield-form mirrorplate in a carved and gilded wood molded frame decorated with combing, C-scrolls, and rosettes, their pediments carved with...

This is an antique girandole mirror dating to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, circa 1800. A super example, this wall mirror is fra...

Fine pair of Georgian style carved and giltwood girondoles profusely carved with foliage and having shaped border plates, the two sconce arms with cast brass foliate candle sockets, ...

With five petal overhanging crest over a shaped carved frame with mirrored outer frame, satyre mask at base which once held a candle arm.

With overhanging five leaf crest and carved frame with mirror plate set within an outer mirror frame, base with a satyre mask where a candleholder once was.

Pair of gilt Rococo small petite decorative mirrors.

Attractive pair of French Louis XV style gilt bronze four light girandole mirrors with floral garland draped over beveled mirrors, circa 1900.  

Pair of antique French Rococo style figural giltwood sconces, decorated with scrolls, foliate and cherubs. The bottom has two candlestick arms.

Overall gilded, in the beautiful Rococo taste, circa 1940s, beveled glass surmounted in scroll decorated frame, the bottom has two candelabra arms.