French Metro Antiques Chandeliers and Pendants

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...

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 sleek and stylish Art Deco six-light chandelier, c.1930's from France, has a well-patinated chrome frame with hexagonal central column and matching canopy. Each frosted-glass cy...

A French single light iron chandelier from the mid-20th century. This vintage French chandelier features a delightful iron-shaped body adorn in scrolled accents, and a small balled bottom finial. There is a nicely sized single light, with painted candle sleeve, caged within the center of the lantern-shaped armature. The chandelier has wonderful aging and patina throughout and is a golden-bronze color. The light fixture has been rewired for the US and comes with a complimentary 3-foot chain and canopy painted to match. This French midcentury lantern...

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...

A French 20th century Art Deco bronze and carved veined caramel-colored alabaster six-light chandelier. The carved circular alabaster plafonnier, with an interior light, on a floral ...

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

The Cactus lighting series by Albert Cheuret is one of the most iconic of his production. Presented at his stand located on the Pont Alexandre III during the 1925 Paris Exhibition, t...

A large French twelve light bronze and crystal chandelier from the 1800’s. This statement chandelier has a bronze frame with cut crystal drops and cut crystal floral designs hanging from twelve scalloped chandelier arms...

Antique (late 19th century) six light chandelier in the neoclassical style crafted from gilt bronze and crystal glass, electrified with candelabra size sockets and wiring, ready for ...

A large and rare early French 20th century Art Deco bronze alabaster eight-light chandelier. Measures: Height fixture 87 cm. Total height 100 cm. Diameter 65 cm. Twelve bulbs w...

Elegant twelve-light Louis XV style chandelier of gilt bronze with large crystal plaquettes and spires from the mid to late 19th century.