Hi, can anyone help date this metal & crystal chandelier I picked up please?

Hi, I picked this up from a large Victorian house in Hampstead, London, the owner was renovating and did not know any history, it is appropriately 800mm in height & 900mm in diameter, it takes small bc fitting bulbs, the main body seems to be grey painted but the leaves seem like zinc.
Thanks.

 

Might not be so very old, or the prisms may have been replaced.

It looks like the connectors are shiny brass. Is that correct?

 

Hi, Yes you are right, looking at it, some of the connections do look like they have been replaced, but some are very dull wire.
Thanks

 

If the majority of prisms are dull wire, with only a few to replace lost or broken, then I would put the lamp at an earlier time period.

Wait for other opinions.
BTW - Welcome to the board.

 

Hi,
My first MIL had a wonderful four tier upside down wedding cake living room chandelier. It was missing about 25 prisms. The wire hangers were iron instead of brass and rusting away. I took it down and rewired all of the prisms with solid brass. It should last another 100 years. Five years later the brass pins had all oxidized and everything looked original again.
greg

 

This is very much like the all metal floral lamps that were coming from Italy in the 1950's and are still popular in my area. Maybe the '50's lamps and ceiling fixtures were patterned after this earlier version with the crystals and metal.
If you are somewhat handy, you could probably fashion a replacement for the missing element on the upper right. Find 5 right size prisms, wire them together, cut a metal star shape, drill a center hole and there ya' go, good as new!

 

High end 1980s, I suspect. And I agree Italian. Anything on the inside of the bulb holders? Can you get a close up?

 

I, Thanks for all the advice, I decided to strip it down,mostly to clean and get the wiring checked, as has been said it doesn’t look to be of any age, as you can see from these photos, but I think I’ll clean it up and put in some new wire, hang it and see. Thanks

 

those clear pics show newer hardware...and lack of age...

It's a learning thing !!!

 

Yup, modern. Kema Keur is a Belgian/Dutch quality mark, as is CEBEC. That green/yellow earth is modern as well. It's post 1977 at the very least, but the rest of it looks 1980s or later. It may well still be Italian in terms of the fitment.