Arkansas - Lighting

This classic early 20th century bronze chandelier comes from France and is draped in a variety of beautifully cut crystal plaquettes. Note the crystal fleurettes at top and center, t...

This interesting and decorative light fixture made in the great decades of silent films and the first motor cars shows many fine features. The iron is forged and worked in the fashio...

19th century French gilt bronze and glass six-light chandelier French, Late 19th Century Height 30cm, diameter 72cm This very elegant late 19th century French six-light chandelier...

Spanish Baroque style wrought iron torchère floor lamp with black patina. Beautifully hand wrought and turned shaft supported by a tripod base. This date from the early 20th century, a time when Italian and Spanish Baroque furniture...

Italian Murano glass all-handcrafted design candle pendant six-light. This timeless candle chandelier could be the perfect lighting solution to a space that needs a special atmosphere. The spiral shaped design will make this zuid European lamp...

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 6 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...

Exquisite 19th century French gilt bronze and crystal 20 light chandelier. Featuring gorgeous crystals and a beautiful decorative base. An exceptio...

An elegant and quietly dramatic six-light chandelier by Paul Ferrante, masterfully blending old-world European influence with the restrained sophistication for which the Los Angeles ...

Vintage gilt bronze and tole 2-light bouillotte lamp. Round bronze base and oval gilt and painted tole adjustable shade with two arm candle lights and wreath finial.

An exquisite gilt bronze chandelier from 19th century France with all the flourish of Rococo Revival. Eight scrolling arms rising from the ornate central column are emphasized by fo...

Beautiful French hand painted wrought iron chandelier with hand made and painted in green metal leaves. There are six bulbs on the top. France

A very fine pair of French 19th-20th century neoclassical style patinated cast iron figural torchères by A. Durenne, Paris, each representing a figure of a standing young maiden, her arms raised forward while holding a a flaming urn gas light (Now electrified) with a frosted glass flame, each raised on a veined grey marble column stand, both cast-signed 'A. Durenne, Paris'. Antoine Durenne was an internationally renowned French art founder. He attended École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1842. Durenne purchased a small foundry in Sommevoire, near the Val d'Osne, Haute-Marne, France and established The Durenne firm, circa Paris, 1900. Cast-iron had been in production during the 18th century but its inferior status to the more fashionable and delicate wrought iron had generally confined its use to architectural work. By the early 19th century, however, rapid developments of the Industrial Revolution combined with the simultaneous burgeoning of a new middle class provided the impetus for a dramatic Expansion in its application and in a short space of time a proliferation of iron foundries across Europe and America thrived on the production of everything from inkstands to railway stations. The use of cast-iron for garden ornament became particularly widespread at this time, as the possibilities for its mass-production at a fraction of the cost of bronze made it the material of choice for outdoor statuary...