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Early lighting is rare. Often a candle or groups of candles were the end of the story. Fireplaces furnished lighting and heat, candles were luxury items.  Elaborately gilt decoration was meant to be seen by candle light. Oil lamps, common in antiquity, are sometimes found. Chandeliers were first candles, then gas, then about 1880 electrification came to the Paris Exposition and the lighting of the Avenue de l'Opera. Soon the most elegant and elaborate chandeliers imaginable were made in increasing amounts.

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  • Circa 1900 Belle Epoque Crystal Pendant Light, France

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    A handsome faceted and polished crystal pendant / chandelier made in France circa 1900. Tall and narrow with light grey toned crystal. Wired for...

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  • Wrought Iron Chandelier circa 1920

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    An early 20th century wrought iron chandelier.  Decorated with traces of white paint, tooling and weathered iron   From a good west coast collection. 

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