Skip to content

Lighting

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.

Filters

$
$

  • A Pair of Vintage Bow Sconces, Italy

    Antique & Art Exchange
    $2,950.00 - $2,950.00
    $2,950.00
    $2,950.00 - $2,950.00
    $2,950.00

    A pair of Italian Vintage dark red painted, gilt wood and metal sconces in the form of bows and ribbons. These are a nice large scale pair of 5 li...

    View full details
    $2,950.00 - $2,950.00
    $2,950.00
    $2,950.00 - $2,950.00
    $2,950.00

  • Baroque Silver Gilt Pricket, Italy circa 1780

    Antique & Art Exchange
    $1,100.00 - $1,100.00
    $1,100.00
    $1,100.00 - $1,100.00
    $1,100.00

    An Italian Baroque silver gilt pricket, or candlestick, circa 1780. Well carved with the silver gilding on the front side only. Old repair to the top.

    $1,100.00 - $1,100.00
    $1,100.00
    $1,100.00 - $1,100.00
    $1,100.00