An Art Deco double figure lady table lamp, circa 1930, Germany
- the spelter cold-painted silver and mounted on a rectangular
alabaster base holding aloft an original "marbled" yellow glass globe.
This figurative spelter lamp is one of the most stylish produced in
the 1930s.
There is no information on the designer or foundry that created these
lamps and that is probably because of the fact that many of the
casting foundries seem to have been centred in or around the city of
Berlin, which was destroyed during WW2.
This is a pity because the lamps produced are of a very high quality
in terms of the metal formula they used and the actual casting. They
were produced as home decoration and sold through department and
furnishing stores and seemed to have been extremely popular in Great
Britain (as were Art Deco figures by Lorenzl and Preiss) at that time,
falling out of fashion in the 1940s (also any German made products
were understandably unpopular) but because they are so evocative of
the period they were "rediscovered" in the 1970s and have been in
style ever since.
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