|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chandelier Glossary Adam style - A neoclassical style, light, airy and elegant chandelier - usually English. Arm - The light-bearing part of a chandelier also sometimes know as a branch. Arm Plate - The metal or wooden block placed on the stem, into which the arms slot. Bag - A bag of crystal drops formed by strings hanging from a circular frame and looped back into the centre underneath, associated especially with early American crystal and regency style crystal chandeliers. Baluster - A turned wood or moulded stem forming the axis of a chandelier, with alternating narrow and bulbous parts of varying widths. Bead - A glass drop with a hole drilled right through. Bobeche- A dish fitted just below the candle nozzle, designed to catch drips of wax. Also know as a drip pan. Branch - Another name for the light-bearing part of a chandelier also know as an arm. Candelabra - Not to be confused with chandeliers, candelabras are candlesticks, usually branched, designed to stand on tables, or if large, the floor. Candlebeam - A cross made form two wooden beams with one or more cups and prickets at each end for securing candles. Candle nozzle - The small cup into which the end of the candle is slotted Canopy - An inverted shallow dish at the top of a chandelier from which festoons of beads are often suspended, lending a flourish to the top of the fitting. Cage - An arrangement where the central stem supporting arms and decorations is replaced by a metal structure leaving the centre clear for candles and further embellishments. Corona - Another term for crown-style chandelier Crown - A circular chandelier reminiscent of a crown, usually of gilded metal or brass, and often with upstanding decorative elements. Crystal - Glass with a lead content that gives it special qualities of clarity, resonance and softness – making it especially suitable for cutting. Also know as lead crystal. Drip Pan - The dish fitted just below the candle nozzle, designed to catch drips of wax. Know also as a bobeche. Drop - A small piece of glass usually cut into one of many shapes and drilled at one end so that it can be hung from the chandelier with a brass pin. A chain drop is drilled at both ends so that a series can be hung together to form a necklace or festoon. Dutch - Also known as Flemish, a style of brass chandelier with a bulbous baluster and arms curving down around a low hung ball. Festoon - An arrangement of glass drops or beads draped and hung across or down a glass chandelier, or sometimes a piece of solid glass shaped into a swag. Also known as a garland. Finial - The final flourish at the very bottom of the stem. Some Venetian glass chandeliers have little finials hanging from glass rings on the arms. Hoop - A circular metal support for arms, usually on a regency-styles or other chandelier with glass pieces. Also know as a ring Moulded - The process by which a glass piece is shaped by being blown into a mould (rather than being cut) Neoclassical Style Chandelier - Glass chandelier featuring many delicate arms, spires and strings of beads. Prism - A straight, many sided drop Regency Style Chandelier - A larger chandelier with a multitude of drops. Above a hoop rise strings of beads that diminish in size and attach at the top to form a canopy. A bag, with concentric rings of pointed glass, forms a waterfall beneath. The stem is usually completely hidden. Soda Glass - A type of glass used typically in Venetian glass chandeliers. Soda glass remains “plastic” for longer when heated, and can therefore be shaped into elegancy curving leaves and flowers. Spire - A tall spike of glass, round in section or flat sided. To which arms and decorative elements may be attached, made form wood, metal or glass. Tent - A tent shaped structure on the upper part of a glass chandelier where necklaces of drops attach at the top to a canopy and at the bottom to a larger ring. Venetian - A glass from the island of Murano, Venice but usually used to describe any chandelier in Venetian style. Waterfall - Concentric rings of icicle drops suspended beneath the hoop or plate. |
.JPG "Art Deco 3 Arm")