Mid-19th Century Lighting

Pair antique French Louis XVI style gold bronze sconces, Circa 1840-1860.

Set of four trumpets wall lights from circa 19th Century in brass.

Beautiful pair of carved and gilded wooden appliques with pure gold leaf, made like two cherubs holding up a vase of flowers. Two candle holder arms in iron, also gilded.

Elegant Rococo style glass & brass oil lamp base, now converted for electricity. PAT tested and compliant for the U.K. Can be adapted for worldwide wiring if required. This will ha...

This is a lovely fixture. The cloisonne bowl has been converted into a small chandelier. The enamel coloring remains bright and lustrous.

Handsome wall sconces.

Well cast brass base on a pretty overlay glass top. Would grace any interior. Converted from an oil lamp to electric.

A pair of Napoleon III candlesticks gilt bronze and Champleve enamel Origin France 19th century 1860 perfect condition. The Napoleon III style had its...

Pair antique French Empire bronze D'Ore wall-lights, Circa 1830-1850.

19th Century heavily decorated four-sided brass hall lantern with original stained glass panels.

Louis Philippe table lamp, Paris porcelain style circa 1850 ceramic height alone: 30 cm

These sconces are fine examples of the Louis XVI style. They have been rewired.

Rare pair of finely chiseled matte and shiny gilt bronze sconces. An imposing tied ribbon overhangs the sconces. A knotted link is in the center from which two berry branches come ou...

A pair of brass and copped Gothic Revival candlestick lamp bases, 19th century, with castellated rims.

Tall Italian table lamp in bronze, decorated with masks and guirlandes. Grey shade in linen with a gold interior.

Very elegant cristal rock and blue glass chandelier, from Sweden. Around 1820, in the Empire style.

With a gilded bronze base decorated with foliage surrounding and supporting a smart cranberry glass column, including a fluted fabric shade. Fitted for electricity.

A pair of period, hand carved, gessoed, and 22-karat gold gilded, Second Empire, French sconces. Each with gilt bronze arms, and inset with original, mercury glass mirrors. Each with...

An Important Louis XV style twelve-light rock crystal and gilt-bronze chandelier. French, circa 1850. An important Louis XV style twelve-light rock crystal and gilt-bronze chandelier, surmounted by a floral corona, issuing six scrolling branches, each terminating with three circular drip pans and nozzles, decorated all over with drops, grapes, apples and baluster shaped shades. The etymology of the word "crystal" has its origins in the Ancient Greek word for ice ‘krystallos’. Rock crystal which is always cool to the touch they considered to be ice permanently frozen by the Gods. For thousands of years Rock crystal has been prized for its beauty and remarkable ability to refract light. When cut and polished, the inherent striations and inclusions of the crystal create a refracted light richer in luminosity than that of manmade crystal or glass. These properties have made it highly desirable throughout history; its scarcity ensuring its use was limited to all but the most luxurious of decorative items. Rock crystal is in reality a natural quartz, pure monocrystals of siliceous oxide. A material of exceptional hardness with indices of light refraction close to that of a diamond, quartz has been mined and worked since antiquity. In the Middle Ages, this rare material was used almost exclusively on religious objects. A prohibitively expensive material, Cristal de roche was first mined in France in small quantities in the 17th century and its rarity forced artisans to innovate. The imitation of crystal began in Venice in the 15th century - the art of the glassmaker being to recreate the limpidity and luminosity of rock crystal. To do this, the glassmakers invented a 'crystal' made in reality of glass combined with a mixture of potassium, silicon, manganese and lead oxide heated to between 1200 and 1500 degrees. This crystal imitated rock crystal, although it displays a metallic colouring. This crystal de roche should not be confused with what is now called crystal. The latter was a development of 18th century Bohemia and, subsequently France with the Manufacture Royale de cristaux. Rock crystal first appears as small beads on candelabras and chandeliers - not yet called lustres - in the 17th century. At the beginning of the 18th century the discovery of new seams in Central Europe allowed the mining of larger blocks of crystal, which could in turn be worked into pyramids, drops and stars. The highest value was historically based, like diamonds, on two things - the weight and the clarity or limpidity of the crystal. The clearer the better, hence the phrase d'une très belle eau when referring to crystal. Perhaps the earliest recorded-reference in France is in 1697, when Louis XIV offered twelve grand 'lustres' in 'cristal de roche' to the King of Siam. Louis XV also possessed a chandelier with twelve branches in his chambre a coucher at Versailles which had been delivered by Delaroue and Slodtz. This was commented on by the duc de Luynes: 'on a mis dans la chambre du roi, un chandelier en cristal de roche d...

A magnificent Louis XVI Style gilt bronze twenty-four-light figural chandelier. This fine chandelier is of large size at over 185 cm (73 inches) high. Finely cast in gilt bronze i...

19th century Middle Eastern copper and brass ewer with serpent detail. One of a kind design by Michelle Nussbaumer combining her eye for taking an antique pitcher...

An unusual set of four 19th Century French painted table lamps with original engraved brass collars and mounts. These lamps have passed PAT tested according to UK standards.Circa 1860.

Lampe bouillotte.

Exquisite French 19th century four-light bronze sconce with patinated bronze arms attached to large bronze orb in front of acanthus leaf backplate. The sconces are adorned with bron...

A pair of very unusual pine lime painted wooden Gothic lanterns. Glass to either side and the bottom.

Pair antique bronze D'ore French Empire wall-lights, circa 1830-1850.

This exquisite pair of 19th-century French Sèvres porcelain table lamps, mounted in gilt bronze ormolu, exemplifies the fine craftsm...

A large antique French Empire-style neoclassical chandelier in silvered bronze. The chandelier is suspended from a crown-shaped canopy decorated with acanthus leaves and laurel bands...