Maison Charles Chandeliers and Pendants

Sheaf of wheat chandelier in de style of Hans Kögl / Maison Charles ca. 1970 Made in a beige white color which makes it a beautiful match in...

Large French 1960s chandelier by Maison Charles, Paris. Referenced model: Modèle "aux joncs." From a Parisian apartment. Rewired with matching wax candle covers. Adjustable chain an...

Attractive neoclassical style hand-forged wrought iron dressed with hand-carved and polished rock crystal and smokey rock crystal six-light chandelier. A...

Nice chandelier in finely worked bronze, Napoleon III period. Six-light arms fitted with "Grand Siècle" candles and one more light in the central cassolette. Finely chiseled chains...

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 high quality chandelier by Kinkeldey, Germany, manufactured in Mid-Century, circa 1960. It is made of a nickeled or chromed brass frame and hexagonal sahped crystal glass. The ligh...

Housing 2-lights. Will be rewired with certified UL US sockets for the USA, appropriate sockets for all other countries and ready to hang. A rare example of old Maison Baguès with t...

Maison Charles lighting pieces always infuse French timeless elegance, and this rare set of four wall lights, edited in the 1970s, is a perfect example. This model is called Clea and...

NIce pair of bronze sconces with polished brass shade Signed by Maison Charles Made in France Two pairs available Re-wired

Rare pair of 1970s Maison Charles bronze sconces Price given for a pair.

French Maison Bagues style bronze Neoclassical sconces. French Maison Bagues style bronze Neoclassical arrow sconces. These stunning French Empire s...

Nickel-plated Bakalowits crystal chandelier, circa 1960s. Original condition.