L.101

A rather unusual figural lamp from France. The cast zinc sculpture (régule) consists of a female figure sitting on a baroque ornamented pedestal, which also represents the base of the lamp. The female figure is holding a quill in her left hand. The right hand supports a jug that is strangely placed between the woman's head and hand and does not make sense in this arrangement. The figure is not signed. The cast is not very fine; you can see a lot of cast seams. In particular, I had to properly grind and polish the female figure. The lamp undoubtedly belongs to the Art Nouveau period and was probably made around 1900.

When the lamp came to me, the glass font was broken and a foot of the base was broken off! I had to replace the font with a blue glass font that I bought later. I carefully soldered on the broken foot of the pedestal. The original bronze colour was rubbed off several times, dull and much stained. So I washed off the paint with caustic soda and painted the sculpture with two different gold bronze colours.

The beautiful tulip made of embossed and etched glass in Art Nouveau looks very French, but came from Great Britain.

Lamp Data

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

Cleaning and repairs:
The broken glass font was replaced with another font. Lamp completely cleaned of remains of the original bronze colour and re-bronzed in two different gold tones.

Lamp body:
Cast zinc lamp body with a figure of a young woman in Art Nouveau style, who sits on a baroque ornamented, tripod pedestal and holds a quill in her left hand. The right arm supports a jug. Height of the sculpture 34 cm, base side length ca. 16 cm.
Replacement font made of blue, transparent glass, optically ribbed, Ø 134 mm.

Burner:
16’’’ Odin burner of Carl Holy, Berlin.
Wick knob marked: Odin (Logo of Carl Holy for export to France).
Original flame disc with a small disc on pin.
Flat wick 87 mm.

Glass chimney:
15’’’ shoulder chimney. Height 270 mm, Ø fitter 53 mm.
Marked: Prima (with sun) - Böhmisches Cristall - Universal 15’’’ + Logo of Giessing.

Shade and shade holder:
Tulip shade, colourless glass, frosted and embossed, 6-fold diagonally divided, cameo-etched ornamentation, fluted top rim.
Height 178 mm, Ø fitter 67 and top rim 116 mm.
70 mm globe holder for 14’’’/15’’’ burners.

Lamp dimensions:
Height up to collar 42.6 cm, total height with chimney 75.0 cm.
Total weight 2620 g.