Antique Lights Information
Category Descriptions

Architectural Lamps
This category represents Antique lights for “great rooms“ that desire specific detail. Examples of this would be : Argand lights for a mantle, newel post lights for a post on a stairway landing.

Art Deco
The Art Deco period, 1920 - 1930 , is an art movement involving a mix of modern decorative art styles, whose main characteristics were derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century and incorporated into the antique lights .

Arts and Crafts
In the Arts and Crafts movement , 1895 - 1910 , artists rebelled against the mass production techniques of the Revivalists, calling upon artists to make their pieces individually and by hand. There was a simplicity, squareness and symmetry to Antique lighting of this period.

Crystal
Antique crystal chandeliers were originally powered by candles or gas. A multi-arm antique crystal fixture would have bobeches below the light source . Bobeches are round circular glass dishes that would hold the candle drippings or reflect the gases’ glow. On the bobeches prisms would be attached to reflect the light. The body of the crystal chandelier would be glass and prismatic as well.

Electric Chandeliers
Antique electric chandeleirs came into existence at the turn of the century after the gas and electric combination. People found electricity safer and brighter.

Flush fixtures & Pendants
Powered by incandescent bulbs, antique lighting flush fixtures are generally used for low ceilings and small areas. These antique lights could have various glass shapes and colors and are mostly enclosed. Pendants are single bulb antique lights that can hang as long as you want to make them keeping in mind the proportion of the space they are occupying. They can be a closed or open antique light made of glass , mica often a lantern and small candle clusters.

Gas & Electric
During the late 1800’s, around the beginning of the use of electric incandescent lighting, the Gas and Electric Chandelier is also called transitional combination and G & E form . This chandelier style was derived by the use of incandescent lighting added to the earlier gas chandelier form. Typically for example on a 6 arm gas and electric chandelier you will see the 3 gas arms facing up and the 3 incandescent lighting arms facing down . This is commonly called the combination form.

Gas Chandeliers
Period following the use of fluids to power chandeliers, gas was manufactured from coal to power chandeliers. This was an improvement from a safety point of view because fluids would tend to flow and drip to cause fire hazards. A typical gas chandelier ( e.g. 3 arm gas chandelier ) would have 3 arms with bowl shades on the end of the arms housing a gas flame that would light the room . The wattage output from gas chandeliers was fairly low. Antique Gas fixtures can be placed in many of the rooms in your home and vary in size and detail.

Harder to Find
In this Category you will find Antique Lights that have more detail or are more specific to the period. All of our Antique Lights are truly a labor of past love but in this Category the people of the past spent extra time making the design and the various combinations of castings, spinnings, glass, turnings and crystal with an expressiveness unmatched. Take a look and let us know what interests you.

Interiors
We want to give you an idea of how our Antique lights look in their Brownstone, Rowhouse, or 1905 1000’ sq. foot Condominium.

Inverted Domes
Bowl shaped chandelier supported by chains or rods, these antique lights are very versatile and can feel at home in many of the rooms of your house. Made of cast glass, glass, milk glass, slag glass and mica.

Lanterns, Harps, Gas J’s
Lantern
Type of antique fixture composed of metal, glass and translucent mica sheets.

Gas Harp
Pair shaped single light gas ceiling fixtures commonly found in the hall , foyer of a Victorian Home.

Gas J
Asymmetrical shaped single light gas ceiling fixture commonly found in halls and small areas.

Sconces
Antique lighting sconces are placed on a wall or mantle in various rooms of your home. Antique sconces could be gas, gas and electric, and electric. A gas sconce would have the arms going up to hold the shade(s), a back plate to attach to the wall and a gas key on the fixture .

Although you will find gas keys, all of the gas and gas and electric sconces have been electrified . Antique Gas and electric sconces will have arm(s) going up and arm(s) going down and a back plate to attach to the wall. Antique electric sconces will mostly have the arm(s) going down with the exception of electric candle sconces . A back plate to attach to the wall.