Sparkling Chandeliers
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "Sparkle" was chosen by Lisa (red stilletto).
Nothing sparkles quite so much under light as crystal chandeliers, and that was their purpose. Whilst we are all used to the illumination of electric light, crystal chandeliers were invented in the Eighteenth Century to reflect candlelight and thus provide more illumination. Mirrors were also used for the same purpose.
These elegant chandeliers I photographed at three different places I visited whilst on holiday in January.
The main right-hand photograph is of is a Nineteenth Century Victorian crystal chandelier in the drawing room of Werribee Mansion, once the home of the Chirnside family, now a historical house open to the public. Visit www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/werribee-park for more details if you would like to visit Werribee Mansion.
The top left-hand photograph is of a Twentieth Century Edwardian crystal chandelier in the entrance hall of "Warwilla", a grand red brick mansion on St Kilda Road built in 1896.
The bottom left-hand photograph is of an Eighteenth Century Georgian crystal chandelier in the Green Room of the Johnston Collection, a small private museum in East Melbourne that specialises in Eighteenth Century and older antiques and decorative arts, consisting entirely of the collection of antique dealer Mr. William Johnston. Visit: johnstoncollection.org/ if you would like to find out more about the Johnston Collection or visit it.
Sparkling Chandeliers
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "Sparkle" was chosen by Lisa (red stilletto).
Nothing sparkles quite so much under light as crystal chandeliers, and that was their purpose. Whilst we are all used to the illumination of electric light, crystal chandeliers were invented in the Eighteenth Century to reflect candlelight and thus provide more illumination. Mirrors were also used for the same purpose.
These elegant chandeliers I photographed at three different places I visited whilst on holiday in January.
The main right-hand photograph is of is a Nineteenth Century Victorian crystal chandelier in the drawing room of Werribee Mansion, once the home of the Chirnside family, now a historical house open to the public. Visit www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/werribee-park for more details if you would like to visit Werribee Mansion.
The top left-hand photograph is of a Twentieth Century Edwardian crystal chandelier in the entrance hall of "Warwilla", a grand red brick mansion on St Kilda Road built in 1896.
The bottom left-hand photograph is of an Eighteenth Century Georgian crystal chandelier in the Green Room of the Johnston Collection, a small private museum in East Melbourne that specialises in Eighteenth Century and older antiques and decorative arts, consisting entirely of the collection of antique dealer Mr. William Johnston. Visit: johnstoncollection.org/ if you would like to find out more about the Johnston Collection or visit it.