Adrian Alan Lighting

A Large and Magnificent Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Glass Hexagonal Lantern. The arched rail corona with green painted trailing leafy branches with porcelain flowers. The six sides with curved glass panels within shell cast frames and hung with faceted drops. Enclosing a suspended six-light candelabrum. Fitted for electricity. France, Circa 1900 This large and supremely decorative lantern originates from designs by Jacques Caffiéri supplied in the 1740s to the royal palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau. Its clear antecedent is the monumental lantern...

A Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Red Lacquer Vases, Adapted as Table Lamps. Each vase is mounted with gilt-bronze handles issuing from grotesque masks, gilt-bronze collars, and flute...

A Rare Monumental Cut-Crystal Twenty-Four-Light Chandelier, by F&C Osler This rare electrolier or chandelier has a cut glass canopy and bowl form corona issuing six downward scrolli...

A Pair of Gilt and Patinated-Bronze Three-Light Wall-Appliques, With Glass ‘Pineapple’ Shades, Attributed to Maison Baguès. Each modelled with a Moorish basket bearing figure on an...

A Grand Neo-Gothic Gilt-Bronze Lantern, By Louchet Frères, Paris. The hexagonal-shaped lantern with yellow glass tracery windows. Issuing gargoyle three-light candle arms to the sid...

A Pair of Gilt and Patinated-Bronze Three-Light Wall-Appliques, With Glass ‘Pineapple’ Shades, Attributed to Maison Baguès. Each modelled with a Moorish basket bearing figure on an...

A Pair of Napoleon III Silvered and Gilt-Bronze Urns On Marble Bases, Mounted As Lamps. Each modelled as a classical twin-handled vase with raised work ornament of masks and scroll...

A Fine Pair of Gilt-Bronze Three-Light Wall Appliques. Each with a scrolling foliate back-plate surmounted by a shell issuing scrolling acanthus branches. The backplate is centred...

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Cut Crystal Tent and Frame Chandelier with Blue Enamelled Galleries. The corona of the chandelier is in the form of a blue enamelled band wit...

A pair of Charles X Gilt-Bronze Figural Candelabra, Fitted As Lamps. Each modelled with a figure of cupid on a sphere with a butterfly on one hand and holding aloft a candelabra wit...

A Fine Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Rococo Lantern. Finely cast with fronded and scrolling acanthus and ribbon tied foliate decoration. French, Circa 1870.

An impressive and large cut-glass ceiling light of quatrefoil outline, hung all over with cut-glass pendants, chains and drops. French, Circa 1920.

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Moulded-Glass Twenty-Four Light Chandelier by La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat. Moulded 'Baccarat' signature to the drip trays. The chandelier has a circular corona mounted with Acanthus and hung with drops and swags above a circular cage frame issuing tiers of scrolling acanthus wrapped candle branches with glass drip-pans and circular nozzles, interspersed by finely cast putti figures. The chandelier is hung overall with faceted drops and terminals. The twenty-four light model, like the present example is illustrated in Baccarat's 'Tarif des Articles d'Eclairage', from the turn of the century, as 'Lustre Série E.193'. It is priced at 970 old French Francs...

A Pair of Regency Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Floor Lamps or 'Torchères', After The Models By James Smethurst of New Bond Street. Each with central lidded urn above three fluted branches with tulip-shaped glass shades supported by three pelicans, the stands with rams’ head masks above monopodia supports on paw feet, England, 20th Century. This model of lamp, without pedestal, was invented by the Regency lamp-manufacturer James Smethurst of New Bond Street, whose registered mark of post-1814 has been recorded on period examples. A set of four lamps of identical pattern - although not apparently signed - is in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. These were originally supplied for the Saloon of Devonshire House, London, where they are recorded in Henry Hunt's watercolour of 1817. Two were exhibited in 'Country House Lighting...

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Cherub Twelve-Light Chandelier, after the model by Pierre Gouthière for Marie Antoinette. The chandelier having elaborate acanthus scrolling arms ...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Cylindrical Four-Light Lantern. This lantern is of cylindrical form with ribbed uprights supporting a frame with stiff-leaf borders and floral swags ...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Six-Light Chandelier 'Aux Termes'. The central blue-painted tole bowl with spirally fluted lid and pomegranate finial. Modelled with three caryatid ter...

A Fine Set of Four Cut Crystal Six-Light Silvered Wall Appliques. The backplate issuing six ‘S’ - shaped silvered arms with plain silver sconces and shaped crystal drip trays. The ...

A Pair of Orientalist Patinated-Bronze Figural Torchères, Entitled 'Les Deux Indiens'. Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, From the Models by François-Christophe-Armand Toussaint (...

An Important and Monumental Gilt-Bronze and Tole Twelve-Light Chandelier, Attributed to Maison Beurdeley, After The Celebrated Model By François Remond. The vase shaped body is pain...

'Aux Pages' - A Fine Pair of Large Cast Iron Figural Torchères After Mathurin Moreau, Cast by Fonderies D'art Du Val D'Osne. Each figure cast as a young page modelled in the troubad...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Four-Light Chandelier. The chandelier has a gilt-bronze acanthus cast corona above a patinated orb, with writhen suspensions rods suspen...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Cobalt-Blue Ground Porcelain Vase, Fitted as a Lamp. Fronted by an oval portrait depicting a Rococo Style couple at the music lesson. ...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Six-Light Chandelier ‘aux Termes’ Attributed to Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley, Paris. Modelled with three caryatid term figures holding spi...

A Pair Of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze And Royal Blue Sèvres-Style Porcelain Three-Light Vase Candelabra. Each baluster-form vase applied with a fruiting swag, flanked by twin entwin...

A Rare and Highly Unusual Pair of Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall Appliques. France, Circa 1870. Each vigourously modelled in the Louis XV high rococo style as branches of oak leave and acorns suspended from ribbon tied drapes. Provenance: Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Bronzina Room at Halton House, Buckinghamshire Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) The Trustees of Exbury House Literature: Rothschild Archive, London, Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of 'The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring'. 1918. Listed as 'A pair of Louis XV ormolu wall...

A Large Rococo Style Gilt-Bronze Hall Lantern. Grand in scale, this palatial lantern is finely cast in gilt-bronze. It is sumptuously modelled with asymmetrical C-scrolls, swept aca...

A Pair of Néo-Grec Parcel-Gilt Patinated Bronze Vases Mounted as Lamps, Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, from the Model by Henry Cahieux. Each vase is finely cast with herm-headed handles flanking a slender elongated neck above a tapering body relief-cast with classical figures and anthemion, raised on a square Belgian black marble bases. Cast signatures 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR.' and 'HENRY CAHIEUX'. This model of vase was exhibited by Barbedienne at the 1855 Paris 'Exposition Universelle' to great acclaim. They were illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue alongside a classical revival tripod. The pair of vases together with another were described as follows: The two vases (...) selected from many exquisite and beautiful decorative works in bronze from the atelier of Messrs. Barbedienne & Cie, of Paris; they are formed, and ornamented, on the best models of the ancient Greek. The tall slender shape of the vases with their elongated necks and a flaring mouth, in the form of anamphora with two handles, is derived from ancient Greek Loutrophoroi, which were ceremonial vases...

A Pair of Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Five-Light Wall Appliques. Each modelled with a quiver-shaped back plat surmounted by an classical urn finial. Issuing five 'S'-scrolled branches. ...

A Pair of Louis XIV Style Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall-Appliques. Each modelled as a cherubic herm emerging from bracket with foliate swags and holding an 'S'-shaped branch. Wired fo...

A Pair of Gilt-Bronze and Ruby Glass Table Lamps. Each with hexagonal stem and tulip-shaped Bohemian glass base. The metalwork finely turned with crosshatched patterns in gilt-bron...

A Pair of Louis XIV Style Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall-Appliques Modelled With Cherubic Herms. In the Manner of André-Charles Boulle. Each modelled as a cherubic herm holding aloft a...

A Pair of Louis XIV Style Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall-Appliques. In the Manner of André-Charles Boulle. Each modelled as a cherubic herm holding aloft spiral branches. Wired for el...

A Twenty-Four Light Crystal Glass Chandelier, By La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat. The trumpet-shaped corona issuing cane-shaped branches hung with tulip bells. Above a ho...

An Art Nouveau Gilt-Bronze Vase Depicting a Naiad, After Auguste Moreau, Now Mounted as a Lamp. Signed to the body 'Aug Moreau'. French, Circa 1900. Louis Auguste Moreau (1855 -...

A Pair of Empire Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Rouge Griotte Marble Seven-Light Candelabra. These palatial sized candelabra date to the First Empire period. As becoming of ...

A Pair Of 'Japonsime' Gilt-Bronze-Mounted Powder-Blue Porcelain Vases, Mounted As Lamps. By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris. Each with a square shaped body. The sides decorated with ...

A pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted fleur de pêcher marble vases, now mounted as lamps. The body of each vase is of ovoid shape with a fluted gilt-bronze collar and dom...

A Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style gilt and patinated bronze four-light wall-appliques By Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley, Paris. Each modelled with a bare-breaded classical robed figure flanked by two pairs of scrolling branches. The figure standing on a bracket against vine-wrapped thyrsus with foliate trails below. Stamped to the reverse ‘BY’ France, Circa 1880. Provenance: Collection Pierre...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze six-light chandelier 'aux Termes' Attributed to Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley, Paris. Modelled with three caryatid term figures holding spiral branches issuing candle nozzles. The whole executed in exceptionally finely cast gilt-bronze with beautiful matte and burnished gilding. The bowl in blue-painted tole. The prototype for this chandelier dates to the end of the eighteenth century, is attributed to the bronzier François Rémond and is in the Nissim de Camondo museum in Paris (Inv. CAM 146). Another, dated to circa 1785, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972.242). This example is attributed to the celebrated ébéniste and bronzier Maison Beurdeley, owing to the fine quality of the gilt-bronze and in relation to a drawing for the model which is held in the Beurdeley archives in the library of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. France, Circa 1880. Provenance: Collection Pierre...

An impressive Louis XV style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal and moulded-glass fifteen-light chandelier. The corona with branches and three concealed bulbs. The cage frame issuing fifteen branches supporting baluster glass...

An impressive Belle Epoque gilt and patinated bronze twenty-one light chandelier. Attributed to Maison Millet, Paris. This spectacular chandelier is modelled with a sinuous gilt-bronze scrollwork frame. The corona is cast with acanthus leaves and shells issuing four pierced rocaille supports and a central baluster stem connecting intertwined branches with seated putti herm busts...

A fine William IV cut-glass twelve-light chandelier, firmly attributed to Perry & Co. This magnificent chandelier relates to examples in the collection at Chatsworth House which were acquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire for his London residence Devonshire House in the 1840s, notably for the Green Drawing Room and grand Salon. It is likely the firm also supplied a glass handrail, newel post and scrolled wall lights for the fabled ‘crystal staircase’ at the Mansion. English, Circa 1840. Perry & Co William Perry is first recorded in partnership with William Collins at 227 The Strand, London, then from 1803 he joined William Parker, as Parker and Perry...

An Impressive Pair of Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze Figural Torcheres by Goelzer and Poumaroux, Paris. Signed to the plinths ‘A. GOELZER & POUMAROUX, PARIS’. These impressive chas...

A Pair of Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figural Five-Light Candelabra Cast by Barbedienne after the Models by Alexandre Falguière and Paul Dubois. Signed ‘FALGUIERE’ and ‘P. DUBOIS’ ...

A Pair of Sèvres Style Oval Porcelain Dishes Mounted as Appliques. The reverse with spurious Chateau des Tuileries marks and S.37 stamp in blue Sèvres 1844'. Each oval porcel...

An Impressive Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Glass Tent and Bag Eight-Light Chandelier. This fine chandelier has a gilt-bronze acanthus cast corona hung with octagonal flatbacks...

A fine Swedish Empire style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal tent and basket chandelier. Swedish, Circa 1825.  

A fine pair of Napoléon III gilt and patinated bronze Louis XVI style three-Branch Wall Appliqués, After a Design by Pierre Gouthière. French, Circa 1880.

A fine Swedish Empire style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal tent and basket chandelier. Swedish, Circa 1825.

A fine Napoleon III ormolu eight-light chandelier, after the Model by André-Charles Boulle. This well-cast Louis XIV style chandelier is after an important model attributed to And...

A fine set of four Louis XIV style gilt-bronze wall appliques. Each applique having a backplate cast with palmettes and fronded acanthus and i...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and moulded-glass twenty-light chandelier by La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat. Stamped to the central stem 'Baccarat'. Moulded 'Bacc...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and cut-glass eight-light chandelier, French, Circa 1900.

A fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal twenty-light chandelier by La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat, French, Circa 1890.

A small Louis XVI style gilt bronze lantern modelled after the Versailles Model. Of hexagonal form surmounted by a corona cast with fleu...

A large Louis XVI style gilt bronze cylindrical four-light lantern. This large lantern is of cylindrical form with four ribbed uprights supporting a frame with beaded swags and ri...

A fine gilt bronze, cut and moulded glass nine-light chandelier by Perry & Co. This elegant English chandelier has a moulded glass ovoid and baluster stem with gilt bronze circlet...

An original pair of Art Deco 'Mazda' table lamps by Compagnie des Lampes de Paris. Bearing a label to the base of one lamp for 'MAZDA' These iconic Art Deco table lamps with th...

A fine gilt-bronze figural six-light figural chandelier. The chandelier has an acanthus cast finial above a domed corona, finely cast with drapery...