Pair of Austrian Regency Gilt Bronze Foliage and Crystal Chandeliers, C. 1815

French Regency gilt bronze and crystal twelve light chandelier with decorative scrolled arms, foliage filigree banding and lower pineapple finial. Originally candle powered and has b...

French Baccarat gilt bronze and crystal sixteen light chandelier with a scrolled foliage canopy, exterior intertwined crystal floral beading, original scrolled floral candle bobeches...

French gilt bronze and crystal two tier eighteen light chandelier with crystal bulbous spiral centered shaft, floral scrolled fluted arms, and terminating with a floral medallion bas...

French Regency Opaline glass and ormolu bronze chandelier with nine scrolled foliage ormolu arms, foliage ormolu chains, and suspended by the original foliage ormolu canopy. Original...

Finely chiseled gilt bronze and cut crystal Empire elegant chandelier with six arms. Cleaned and re-wired, in full working order and ready to use. In excellent vintage condition. Si...

Finely chiseled gilt bronze and cut crystal Empire elegant chandelier with six arms. Six E 14 light bulbs.

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...

Pair of crystal and chrome chandelier, attributed to Swarovski. Austria, circa 1970.