An Unusual Pan
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This is an extraordinary pan-style chandelier, circa-1920. I love love love how the four lower chains attach to a bell, which hangs from a single upper chain. Oh, the drama! Note, too, the double tassel finials.
I also love love love the luscious original polychrome.
The fixture is not large but, oh boy, but does it present a knock-out visually. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
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Very pretty. I wonder why early electric lights so often had “bare” bulbs. Low wattage of early lights? Always seems a bit harsh and unadorned, but then I spent 25 years creating stained glass lampshades, among numerous other things. I love light through stained glass – electric or natural!
Hi, Jon!
A light bulb was a wonder in the very late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. I imagine people adored seeing these spheres of radiant magic.
And, yes, they were low wattage and carbon-filament bulbs had an orange-ish glow.
The bulbs I show mimic painted bulbs of the era.
I don’t know when ‘ugly’ harsh bulbs came along.
I love that chandelier! All I need is a house to go with it, and I’d be telling you to box it up!