Pair of copper Art Nouveau Wall Lights with opaline shades
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Pair of copper Art Nouveau Wall Lights with opaline shades

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Pair of copper Art Nouveau Wall Lights with opaline shades:
the overhanging S-shaped branch with scrolling decoration, on a circular backplate with gas tap; bearing crimped opaline glass shade, possibly Powell of Whitefriars.
Originally for gas, restored. Circa 1890.

Height: 12½" - 32.0cm
Width: 6½" - 16.5cm
Projection: 13¼" - 35.0cm

Art Nouveau

Late 19th and early 20th Century style originating in France and Belgium. Its influence spread all over Europe and America through periodicals like the Studio magazine. Typical characteristics were the whiplash, stylised swirling flower and plant motifs, female forms and sometimes sinister-looking insects. See Gallé, Lalique, Daum..

Powell, James & Sons

James Powell took over the Whitefriars Glass Works in London in 1834 and began a revival of handblown glass. Powells produced austerely elegant glasses for Arts & Crafts designer Philip Webb and opalescent shades for W.A.S.Benson's light fittings.

opaline

Fine semi-opaque, white and coloured glass, developed by the French in the first half of the 19th century, with a translucent quality.

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