LOUIS MAJORELLE (1859-1926) & DAUM NANCYIpoméeRare one-light... - Lot 16 - Ader

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LOUIS MAJORELLE (1859-1926) & DAUM NANCYIpoméeRare one-light... - Lot 16 - Ader
LOUIS MAJORELLE (1859-1926) & DAUM NANCYIpoméeRare one-light ceiling lamp treated in the naturalist taste. The mounting, with integrated cover-ring and three sinuous and moved arms, realized in patinated bronze. The bulb-holder is made of semi-opalescent aniseed glass, shiny on the inside and matt on the outside. Art nouveau period. Restorations to the glass bulb cover, wear and pitting to the patina of the frame, missing one of the fixing screws, the nuts and washers of the original fixings, chips on the edge of the ceiling light, a shock around the edge of one of the holes. Height: 45 cm - Length: 40 cm - Width: 40 cmExhibition : Lumières; je pense à vous - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, from June 3 to August 5, 1985 . An identical luminary, kept at that time in the Daum & Cie collections in Nancy, was presented during this exhibition under the number 13 of the catalogue. Public collections : Villa Majorelle (also called Villa Jika), Nancy - Two ceiling lights, high version of our model, are kept in the collections of this institution . Bibliography : - Majorelle Frères et Compagnie - Period commercial catalogue, circa 1909-10. Identical model reproduced on plate 10 - Lumières ; je pense à vous - Collectif, catalogue of the eponymous exhibition organized at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, from June 3 to August 5, 1985, Éditions Hermé and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985 . An identical light fixture, kept at that time in the Daum & Cie collections in Nancy, is reproduced on a full page 119 - Alastair Duncan - Majorelle - Éditions Flammarion, Pais, 1991 . A variant of the height shown in an archive photograph of the Villa Majorelle (also known as Villa Jika) reproduced on page 116, another reproduced on page 138 (ill. 112), an identical model (from the Majorelle commercial catalogue) reproduced on page 217 (ill. 169).
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