Waterford Crystal Chandeliers
Waterford Crystal Chandeliers are a fascination. These crystal ceiling fixtures come in all shapes and sizes to suit any modern day home and homes of yester year.
To walk into a room and see this sparkling crystal illuminating the rays of a colored rainbow, is a joy to anyone's heart.
Waterford Crystal Chandeliers are measured by Arms and range from four arms up to eighteen arms.
With lots of patterns to choose from, Waterford Crystal Chandeliers light up any room and bring you to a hidden place where comfort and joy is appreciated. The following are a selection of Waterford Crystal Chandeliers which I higly recommend and can literally save you hundreds of dollars, if not thousands over other retail stores. Remember, you are buying direct from Waterford Crystal. Click on the picture below.
Pieced together by Waterford Crystal Master Craftsmen of Ireland, each facet and prism was meticulously mouth blown and hand cut to a superb finish, bringing you the finest in crystal lighting ware.
The earliest Crystal Chandeliers were used in medieval places of assembly. They generally took the form of a wooden cross with a number of spikes on which candles could be secured, the whole assembly being hoisted to a suitable height on a rope or chain suspended from a hook.
From the 15th century, more complex forms of chandeliers based on ring or crown designs began to become popular decorative features, found in palaces and homes of the nobility, clergy and merchant class. The high cost of night time illumination made the chandelier a symbol of luxury and status. By the early 18th century, ornate cast ormolu forms with long, curved arms and many candles could be found in the homes of much of the growing merchant class.
Chandellettes
Getting away from crystal for a minute, one of my favorite Chandelettes
is a Tiffany type style from Lighting by Gregory. Its got the old rustic look! This store has got everything imaginable on Chandeliers and lightingware. The styles are simply amazing and will suit any house old or new. Hey, tell them The Waterford Crystal guy sent you! Click on the picture below.
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Moving on, Neoclassical motifs became an increasingly common element, mostly in cast metals but also in carved and gilded wood. Developments in glassmaking in the 18th century allowed the cheaper production of lead crystal. The light-scattering properties of this highly refractive glass quickly became a popular addition to the form, leading to the crystal chandelier.
In the nineteenth century, as gas light became a source of illumination, branched ceiling fixtures were produced, and the term gasolier, a portmanteau of gas and chandelier, was frequently used. Gas illuminated chandeliers appeared in the mid-19th century, and many candle chandeliers were converted to gas. By the 1890s, and the appearance of electricity for illumination, chandeliers were produced that used both gas and electricity. As distribution of electricity became wider, and the supply dependable, fixtures wired only for electricity became standard.
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