My online vintage lighting store.

 

 

So, y’all know how much Kenny enjoys scouring Facebook Marketplace. He’s good at finding things not just for the Cross House, but vintage lights as well. I always pay him a finder’s fee.

Recently, he forwarded a late 1950s brass chandelier. Such chandeliers were wildly popular in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and many iterations are easily found.

But what Kenny found is…different, and unlike anything I’ve ever offered:

• It’s large: a whopping 24-inches wide.
• It has six arms (rather than the more common 5 arms).
• The bottom is a large brass bowl. I’ve never seen this before.
• The bowl has an over-scaled acanthus leaf cluster! FABULOUS!
• There are amazing anthemion filigree motifs. Soooooo gorgeous.
• Even the chain links are striking and unique.

My appreciation of the fixture though was largely based after I restored it. For, the few online Facebook pictures had showed a sad-looking thing. The bottom brass bowl was spray-painted gold. Huh? I stripped and polished this. The candles were weirdly stumpy. I changed them for 6-inch candles. Much better! I carefully polished while retaining most of the patina. The crystals were…oh, the horror…pressed glass. I replaced them with hand-cut crystals.

And after?

Oh. My.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My online vintage lighting store.