Dimitri Stefanov

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...

Crafted in France circa 1880, each cassolette is made of carved red marble and has a bronze base and decorative bronze mounts. The cassolettes have been converted into table lamps an...

A beautiful Baltic style chandelier with cobolt blue corrugated crystal stem rising to an upper crown festooned with rock crystal myrzahs. A se...

A beautiful 15 light 4 tier chandelier in bronze and rock crystal. An outer ring of 12 gilt drip pans a-topped with rock crystal candle tubes and 12 x E14 candle...

Lovely marble elephant family, father, mother and baby. Made of Verdite - a type of green metamorphic rock largely made up of fuchsite and fine grain ...

19th century French Empire rock crystal chandelier with exceptional rock crystal bottom dish. Equipped with sixteen lights and double round of icicle pi...

Large beautiful regency Gasolier made from gilt bronze and Rock Crystal. Originally made in France with 36 lights. Arranged in 8 double pairs of lights each held by an angel with ro...

Amazing French of antique grand rock crystal chandeliers in the Louis XV style. Original circa 1910 Gilt bronze frame with 80 lights, with a lovely aged finish, redressed in rock cr...

This exquisite pair chandeliers in the classic antique style showcases a luxurious combination of gilt bronze, clear and rose rock crystal and amethyst drops creating a sophisticat...

Exceptional Baccarat pair of rock crystal chandeliers in the classic style with unusual dimensions of 200 m in height, 1.2m diameter. Each chandelier is composed of 45 main lights an...

19th Century French Bronze and Rock Crystal Chandelier and Amethyst

The receiver plate supporting eight candle arms with slip over drop hung drip pans these alternate with upper kick arms these with drop hung canopies and triangular spires, the balus...

A beautiful pair of mirror backed wall lights in silver gilt with 3 lights profusely hung with large rock crystal plaques and lozenges. Also featuring pebble rose quartz drops and a...

A beautiful rose quartz rock crystal chandelier comprising 4 bronze circular reducing tiers each profusely hung with a total of 135 individually hand carved rock crystal drops. A bea...

A beautiful pair of 10 light tiered rock crystal wall lights. Each arm featuring a bronze drip pan from which small rock crystal teardrops are cascading. The candle holder is topped...

A magnificent bronze gilt French Rococo chandelier with golden leaves and 5 bas-reliefs. With 20 flames on four arms. Completely rewired for EU standard (we can change to US standar...

The receiver plate supports six candle arms each ending with slip over drop hung drip pans. The baluster stem rises up to crystal ball and then upwards an upturned crystal dish from...

Excellent French Gilt-Bronze Rock Crystal Chandelier Excellent French Gilt-Bronze Rock Crystal ChandelierA beautiful 19th century French gilt bronze 16 light chandelier featuring gor...

A highly unusual and beautifully handmade oval design chandelier cut from steel plates with a nickel finish into an ornate and complex twisted briar design, this unique light would l...

A magnificent crowned 12 arm bronze and rock crystal chandelier dating from about 1870. With four eggs and 38 Lights. Featuring rock crystal candle tubes and drip pans with light...

A set of six French gilt brass and rock crystal eleven light wall lights (7 exterior, 4 interior), mid to late 19th Century, each of large proportions and with four feather crests at the upper section with reflective backs and chains of drops, and long facetted drops below. Approximately 125cm high, 50cm wide with a pleasing and symmetrical form. The upper foliate crestings have large Bagues style rock crystal tear drops hanging from them. Below this rock crystal button chains connect...

This exquisite chandelier is a true masterpiece of craftsmanship, created either by the renowned Baccarat or assembled in the 18th-century With its twelve lights and stunning cut an...

A thirty light Baccarat crystal chandelier tiers. The top tier with 8 lights and the bottom tier made alternating in height. circa 1860 to 1870Dimensions:

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 pair of English new Classical Greek style Empire revival with small brass handles in the form of swans with gilt decoration mounted on 13.5cm shade wooden pedestal bases with a brass design base holder. Complete with original pleated lamp...

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...

Excellent French Gilt-Bronze Rock Crystal ChandelierA beautiful 19th century French gilt bronze 16 light chandelier featuring gorgeous rock crystals will compliment your house or fla...

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 beautiful brass and glazed lantern. Part of a set of three matching lanterns. NOW ONLY 1 AVAILABLE AS ONE SOLD. Price is for one lantern only. Th...

Rock crystal vessels were highly demanded and valuable in Medieval times. Inventories from European royal houses and the highest aristocratic families detail the important and sophisticated collections of ewers and bowls. Rock crystal has also been used extensively in religious art. Fine European reliquaries were also made of Rock Crystal including gems, enamel and other precious materials. The work of rock crystal is very ancient. The materials has been worked and valued for its solidity and its purity: it has been believed to be water ice permanently frozen. Our superb example is a gold-mounted rock crystal bowl with enamel. The items origin is not clear and various features and characteristics may lead us to think of different origins and periods of creation. A single piece of stone mounted with gold could be a Milanese work. Although the cut could be French as similar pieces belonged to the French royalty (especially the art lover Duc de Berry, (1340-1416)). French and Italian crystal cutters have been active at the same time and it is often difficult to differentiate their works. Islamic art also influenced European artists. The famous Fatimid treasury provided examples of their sophistication and quality. The seven ewers carved for the Fatimid Imans (known as "The Magnificent Seven") display impressive quality of both rock crystal and enamelled mounts. Even though not identical to works by French silversmith Jean-Valentin Morel who was appointed goldsmith to Queen Victoria in 1852 or Reinhold Vasters (1927-1909) another renown German goldsmith who embellished older rock crystal items, there are similarities between these works. Both reduce their use of colour to black and white on pure gold mounts. Moreover the black enamel design is quite similar. Also, no gems are included and no human figure is represented. Sotherby's described our bowl as a "German Rock crystal bowl with later gold mounts, 15th century." Other items from the period from Germany or Austria are usually silver mounted and the decorations are more colourful and include gems or human figures but they have in common enamel motifs. In our case, the gold foot, handles and rim could date from the 1900s. An expert has established the foot, handles and rim are pure gold. The goldsmith responsible for the improvement of the bowl is possibly the most famous Reinhold Vasters whose work has been displayed in the greatest museums such as the V&A in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Rock Crystal bowl we have is gold mounted. The gold shows in enamelled details that are black and white. The gold handles are also enamelled with black acanthus-like leaves. The enamelling method could be "champleve" or "painting metal". The metal that is usually preferred is copper but these techniques are also applied to gold. The bowl itself could be from the 14th century. It's cut reminds of an estimated 14th century rock crystal ball bearing the Buoncompagni family arms...

A magnificent bronze gilt French Rococo chandelier with golden leaves and 4 bas-reliefs. With 16 flames on four arms. Completely rewired for EU standard (we can change to US standar...

A magnificent bronze gilt French Rococo chandelier with golden leaves and 4 bas-reliefs. With 16 flames on four arms. Completely rewired for EU standard (we can change to US standar...

19th Century Style French Bronze and Rock Crystal Chandelier and t large two-tier chandeliers with outward triple curving arms tied in with a fine framework festooned with large rock...

A spectacular and large antique Baccarat French gilt bronze and rock crystal triple tier 30 bulb plus 6 pygmy bulb chandelier. Embellished with bronze bobeches, from which large rock...

A thirty light Baccarat crystal chandelier with two tiers. The top tier with 10 lights and the bottom tier made up of 20 lights, alternatin...

A fine quality, four light, silvered bronze hall lantern, in the Georgian style. A foliate decorated ring above an urn issuing scroll supports, canted corners and arched tapering sid...

A pair of wrought iron and frosted glass wall lights in Arts & Crafts style, each mounted on an oak mount and with leaf scroll decoration.

Faraday & Son light, the shade with applied drizzled cranberry glass in the form of a strawberry, circa 1900. The crown of hand wrought brasswork. English, 20th century. The frame is register marked as Faraday & Son. Robert Faraday had a foundry in Wardour St. London between 1825-1919 and then it was sold to the Osler company. An important figure during the turn of the century in striving to produce safer gas lighting...