A French Cordelier -- A Device for Hanging Glass Lighting Bowls and Pendants

Description

Offering a "cordelier," a brand-new antique-styled lighting bowl hanging apparatus, made in France (i.e. high quality, probably a mix of silk and other materials).  Use it to hang your favorite French or even American lighting bowl (there will have to have three holes in the glass or alabaster).  The cordelier has a single standard-based socket (allowing whatever size bulb you wish to use).  A lacquered brass canopy comes in the package, as do the three brass rosettes which you see in the main picture.  The rosettes consist of a ¼ inch diameter brass ball and a stamped decorative brass washer, also shown in the main picture.  If you don’t like the decorative washer you can use the balls by themselves, as long as the holes in the bowl are smaller than ¼ inch diameter.  For an additional I’m offering a gorgeous (new old-stock) antique French gilt-finished brass canopy you see in some of the other pictures.  This Art Deco canopy, a French Art Deco period original, couldn’t be more classic, more handsome!  With either canopy your bowl will hang down about 25 inches (if your bowl has a 3-4 inch height).  Note that there's no conventional American mechanical device inside the canopy to hang this bowl. The French and most Europeans don’t have electrical boxes in their ceilings; two electrical wires come through the plaster and they just screw a hook into the ceiling near the wires and hang their chandelier or bowl on it (don’t you just love that simplicity?).  So, one end of one of the cords comes up inside the canopy and forms a loop that simply hangs on
your
hook (which your electrician or you will have to install) that attaches to the strap going across your electrical box.  Or, for simplicity’s sake, just loop a wire through the loop on the cordelier and then through the hole in the center of the strap.  Lots of easy options!  Once the loop in attached to the strap, you can lift the canopy to cover the electrical box and secure it with a plastic tie (provided).  As you can see, this apparatus – especially if accompanied by the antique canopy – brings more than a touch of French elegance to your home, as San Francisco’s DECORUM is famed for.
Finally -- if you prefer an all-metal bowl-hanging device, check out where I have a super-smart looking nickel-plated Art Deco canopy (your choice of four designs!) with three tubes.  Great for glass, alabaster, whatever!
Please take into consideration that for personal reasons I can't ship this item until the end of the first week of October 2019.