L.214

A French pillar lamp made of dark green, multi-coloured marbled marble and brass mounts. The lamp no longer had a font, but the metal undermount of a font existed on the lamp.

The base is, as usual, of a beautifully decorated, well executed brass casting, on which the square marble plinth of dark green marble is placed. The column of the same marble stone is not cylindrical or conical, but slightly convexly turned. Instead of the usual Corinthian brass mounts, two simple connectors made of sheet brass are placed here as column endings.

I had originally intended to buy a colourless Baccarat font and cement it into the undermount. But things turned out differently: I discovered a very attractive glass font at a collector friend, with an unfortunately broken off glass peg at the bottom. This font is made of light green-brown, transparent, hand-blown glass, with dark turquoise-green decorative glass applications. And this font matched the column very well! Certainly, the style of the column was more Historicist, the font more Art Nouveau/Art Deco. But the basic colours went well together. I anchored the font in the brass undermount of the column with Stabilit.

A narrow tulip shade made of uranium glass, which I had bought at an auction shortly before, also matched the rest of the lamp perfectly, as it is coloured light greenish beige and also has melted-in brownish decorative ornaments made of glass. I think the tulip shade and font belong to roughly the same time period.

I completed the lamp with a Reform Kosmos burner by Carl Kneusel and a Kalthoff chimney. The result is a beautiful pillar lamp with an interesting font and a rare tulip shade.

Lamp Data

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

Cleaning and repairs:
The font is cemented into the existing undermount.

Lamp body:
Base of openwork, ornamentally decorated cast brass, on 4 feet, 16.5 x 16.5 cm. Base marked PL 234 at the bottom.
Multicoloured marbled column of dark green marble with a rectangular plate of the same material as base. Mountings of sheet brass.
Font of light green-brown glass with dark green decorative applications, Ø 130 mm. Glass peg broken off.

Burner:
14’’’ Reform Kosmos burner of Carl Kneusel, Zeulenroda (Germany).
Wick knob marked: Carl Kneusel, Zeulenroda. Black glass insert.
Flat wick 68 mm.

Glass chimney:
14’’’ Kalthoff chimney. Height 279 mm, Ø fitter 53 mm.
Marked: Reform-Cristall-Cylinder 14''' Schubert & Sorge Leipzig-Reudnitz.

Shade and shade holder:
Tulip shade, light yellow, semi-transparent uranium glass, melted-in Art Nouveau ornaments, fluted top rim.
Height 197 mm, Ø fitter 67 and top rim 128 mm.
70 mm globe holder for 14’’’/15’’’ burners.

Lamp dimensions:
Height up to collar 42.8 cm, total height with chimney 74.4 cm.
Total weight 2720 g.