L.330

A small porcelain lamp that I constructed myself from a hand-painted porcelain candlestick from the 20th century and a small kerosene/paraffin font. Here, too, the reason was a small glass font that I had bought for another lamp, but for which it was too small. So I bought a matching porcelain candlestick in order to construct a kerosene/paraffin lamp.

The original candlestick is made of finely painted bisque porcelain from the Kalk porcelain factory in Thuringia. A putto is sitting in front of a tree and looking at the pigeon sitting on his arm. The tree trunk is the actual candlestick. A sweet scene in strong colours, in very good signature of Kalk porcelain factory. This signature was used between 1900 and 1976. The candlestick here is probably from the second half of the 20th century.

One problem was the candlestick cup, which was very irregularly shaped and did not allow the font to be held upright. Therefore I plastered the undermount in a leftover brass candlestick cup and glued it into the porcelain cup. This means that the original candlestick cannot be used again as such.

Finally, I completed the lamp with a small tulip shade with matching colour and fanciful shape.

Lamp Data

Added by me:
Glass font, burner, glass chimney, tulip shade and globe holder.

Cleaning and repairs:
The undermount of the font plastered in a matching brass candlestick and the font firmly glued into the candlestick cup of the porcelain.

Lamp body:
Candlestick made of finely painted bisque porcelain from the Kalk porcelain factory in Thuringia. Height 22 cm. Irregularly shaped base.
Font made of clear cranberry coloured glass with painted blossoms in orange-red, Ø 94 mm. With metal undermount for peg lamps. Font firmly cemented in the candlestick, cannot be removed.

Burner:
8’’’ Kosmos burner of Brökelmann, Jaeger & Busse, Neheim, Germany.
Wick knob marked: Kosmos-Brenner + wings (Logo of the burner manufacturer above).
Wick tube marked: Patent Breveté (of Wild & Wessel?).
Flat wick 40 mm.

Glass chimney:
8’’’ Kosmos chimney. Height 172 mm, Ø fitter 36 mm.
Marked: aig - Prima Boheems Glas.

Shade and shade holder:
Tulip shade, moulded and frosted pink glass, upper part darker coloured, diagonal ribbed, fluted and frilled top rim.
Height 96 mm, Ø fitter 58 and top rim 143 mm.
58 mm globe holder for 8’’’/10’’’ burners.

Lamp dimensions:
Height up to collar 27.9 cm, total height with chimney 53.1 cm.
Total weight 890 g.