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These beautiful ceramic lamps, with their Impressionist decor, are full of poetry, painted in polychrome enamels with pansies and eglantine on a pale to dark green background. While there are a few major centers that produced this type of earthenware, such as Gien, Haviland and Montigny-sur-Loing, it's difficult to attribute them with any certainty to any one of these factories, as artists moved back and forth between these different sites. However, in terms of the treatment of the material, they seem very close to the Montigny-sur-Loing production and may have come from the Eugène Schoppin factory, where Emmanuel Kilbert worked. He produced objects very similar to our lamps, reproduced on page 150 of Olivier Fanica and Gérard Boué's book "Céramiques impressionnistes et Grès Art Nouveau". Its rich gilt-bronze frame, spare decoration and rose-hip branches illustrate the taste for Japonism in the last quarter of the 19th century, already heralding the arrival of Art Nouveau.
These lamps have recently been electrified, and we are presenting them with a basic lampshade in order to leave the choice of color and shape to the customer. The lampshades have already been displayed and are slightly stained; they do not justify shipping costs.
19th century
They measure 57 cm with shade and 33 cm with neck.
Ref: SATSFPRL24