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Jugendstil Pendant with hand painted glass shade vienna around 1908 Brass polished and stove enameled Original glass shade

Beautiful Art Nouveau table lamp from the Danish island of Bornholm in the Danish Baltic Sea. The lamp was hand-painted with a masterly hand and a feeling for aesthetics, the ceramic body has a height of 25 cm. The motif is impressive, a small Danish bird...

Rare large Ø 19.8 inches hand carved alabaster Art nouveau / Art Deco chandelier with floral ring displaying leaves. Straight from France this timeless antique is simply breathtaking...

Desklamp with glass-stem brass with the requested finish - the fabric can be delivered with a plugged - or with a leadband –border Most components according to the UL regulations, ...

An exceptional Stickley style Arts & Crafts table lamp, produced and stamped by Warren Hile Studio, Sierra Madre CA. Base from solid oak, an "X" form base, with a copper and mica lamp shade. Paper label from the Mica Lamp Co...

Antique French Brass & Glass Chandelier, Art Nouveau Turn of the century. Spectacular Chandelier of solid brass, gilt bronze details, with molded and cut glass. Stunning chandelier...

An Art Nouveau one light bronze and cut-crystal pendant, circa 1900s. Socket: One x e27 (Edison) for standard screw bulbs.          

Important Desk Lamp in Bronze and Marble, Art Nouveau, France, Circa 1890 We are pleased to present this impressive desk lamp, an exceptional piece of decorative art from the late ...

Very rare wall lamp with a beautiful natural patina. Brass with marks: Rosenmarke and "Wiener Werkstätte," designer monogram "JH" Josef Hoffmann Literature: Compare Wandlampe for Lan...

Cameo Glass Lamp Émile Gallé Circa 1900 This stunning cameo glass lamp displays the unparalleled artistry of the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé, one of the most highly regarde...

Before the funding of the historical Wiener Werkstätte, four pieces of this lamp were designed and manufactured for the Hochstetter Apartment. Now manufactured at the Woka Lamps Work...

Big size Guimard's chandelier with nickel finish.

This is an Arts and Crafts Style Floor Lamp with a Tiffany Style Shade. It's made of metal with a square base.

A beautiful, large cut crystal and glass eight - light chandelier attr. to Zahn/Lobmeyr, Austria, ca. 1920s. Measurements: Diameter - 25.59 inches / Height - 48.42 inches. Socket :...

Rare art nouveau transitional art deco floor lamp. In bronze with floral decoration topped with an alabaster basin. Electrified and in perfect condition. Model listed in “The Paris Salons Voloume V” page 234. It dates from 1913, autumn salon. Total height: 177 cm Base diameter: 34 cm Basin diameter: 45 cm Weight: 20 Kg Sent in two separate packages. Maurice Dufrène is a French cabinetmaker, interior designer, chief decorator and writer, born in 1876 in Paris and died in 1955 in Nogent-sur-Marne. Maurice Dufrène was co-founder in 1902 of the Society of Decorative Artists. In 1920 he created the Maîtrise workshop at Galeries Lafayette. He advocates mass production and works with all materials: fabric, glass, wood, silver, ceramics. Through Henri Rapin he met Camille Tharaud for whom he created several forms of porcelain cups. He designed the decoration of the large hall of the Parisian cinema Le Grand Rex...

GUSTAV GURSCHNER (Austrian, 1873-1970), a sculptor, attended the School of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1888. Working under several artists, his time in Paris in 1897 proved to be most ...

This is a beautiful Art Nouveau Slump Glass Chandelier. The metal work is very well done in an ornate floral style using curved metal and appl...

Magnificent and rare Arts & Crafts Art Nouveau lantern. Striking English design from the 1900s. Patinated brass frame and chain with original and very rare etched glass shade. This w...

Emile Galle A Rare Paysage Vosges table lamp with eagles France, c. 1910 Acid-etched cameo glass Dimensions: 23 Inches High x 11.25 diameter Signed in cameo to base and shade 'Gal...

German sconce wall lamp / rewired gas lamp. ca 1910 White enamel top with white opaline glass shade Brass arm diameter brass wall mount: 12 cm / 4.7” Weight: 1.20 kg / 2.6 lb Pric...

A spectacular and elegant chandelier made of glass tassels by Hector Guimard, France 1900. Art-Nouveau, Art-Déco, Néo-Classique, Shabby-Chic; structure or crown in golden bronze, fluid lines and motifs, tassels forming rods and glass perles enhanced with 3 amber glasses surrounded by motifs in bronze. This piece seems to be a late possibly post-war edition; authentic and ancient piece, edited certainly in 1950-60, coming from an old mansion in Val de...

Late 19th or early 20th century glass Lantern by Baccarat France, marked Baccarat Depose. Produced in an Art Nouveau style with palmettes and scrolls ...

Art Nouveau stained glass lantern, France, 1890-1900. This magnificent Art Nouveau stained glass lantern, dating from 1890-1900, combines vibrant stained glass panels with an intrica...

Arts & Crafts Reverse Painted Textured Glass Landscape Scene Lamp in the Manner of Phoenix with Windmill, Sailboat and Farm c1920 Measures - 22" x 17" x 17"

Boleslaw Danikowski ceramic lamp. Beautiful ceramic table lamp, "Vasque" model with indirect lighting. Interesting enamel decoration work. Dense and thick ceramic, which gives it gr...

Jugendstil chandelier vienna around 1910. Brass polished and stover enameled. We can adjust the height of the chandelier to your room height. The wires are replaced (new). The gl...

This large and substantial Arts & Crafts double domed light was once an indoor fountain and was presumed to have been made in the United States in circ...

Cubist hanging lamp by Dagobert Peche in excellent original condition.

Brass lamp on a white lacquered wooden frame, opaline glass. All components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will UL-list and label our fixtures.

Beautiful antique Art Nouveau lamp made of copper alloy, patinated to old bronze. Produced in former Czechoslovakia in the very beginning of 2...

Pair of Rare Venetian Murano Bell Jar Lanterns with Etched Glass and Brass Details, circa 1900 An extraordinary and rare pair of antique Venetian bell jar lanterns, masterfully craf...

A stunning American Art Nouveau Emeralie table lamp or desk lamp with its original shade. This superb banker's lamp / Emeralite with red / orange opaline glass shade and brass base w...

Cassini Lamps are named after the famous “Cassini–Huygens” Mission which was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system. Cassini-Huygens has been described as a "Mission of firsts", that has revolutionized human understanding of the Saturn system, including its moons and rings, and our understanding of where life might be found in the Solar System. Being inspired by this incredible Mission and planet Saturn, designer created these exceptional series of lighting. Cassini floor lamps...

Large and all handcrafted Art Deco pendant with 12 thick transparent beveled glass window panels and dome top. If you live in an early 1900s Arts and Crafts home or if you are a collector of unique and stylish home accessories from that era then this handcrafted light fixture could be perfect for you. This 3-light Arts and Crafts pendant with its incredibly stylish and fine finishing has the most beautiful shape and patina. Besides beautifully designed and perfectly handmade it also is in very good condition. The handcrafted bronze combined with the beautiful and beveled glass panels make this an absolute joy to own and look at, both with the light switched on and off. This stunning pendant too is professionally rewired for safe and immediate usage in the USA as well. This classy and timeless pendant with its marvelous patina can be used and enjoyed in all sorts of rooms and interiors, but to us this is the ideal entry hall, landing or stairwell pendant...

Gorgeous! Mid Century Free Form Burl Wood Table Lamp After George Nakashima Here is a delicious burl wood lamp with exquisite details! Lacquer work is superb and makes this look ...

Wall or ceiling lamp with opaline glass with an opening device Brass, optionally varnished or nickel-plated, all other surfaces on request, opaline-glass, hand blown. All componen...

Art Nouveau table lamp with original cut-glass, circa 1908 polished and stove enameled.

Hammered jugendstil pendant with original opaline glass polished and stove enamelled

English Hand Crafted Brass and Frosted Glass Hall Lantern A quality English arts & crafts lantern with frosted glass cylinder shade. Hand crafted from brass the lanterns metalwork ...

Table light with opaline glass shade, designed for Villa Steiner Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will UL-list and label our fixtures. ...

Table light with opaline glass shade, handformed and sandcasted brass parts. Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will UL-list and label our...

Beautiful antique American Arts and Crafts period table lamp in bronze with stained glass shade by the Miller Lamp Company. With two modern standard size sockets and cord, ready for...

This One-of-a-kind Arts and Crafts Style Light was made of hand-hammered copper and forged iron. The art/slag glass has been replaced. It has been wired in the US. The light would...

Art Nouveau Guimard chandelier with nickel finish.

Sculptural Art Nouveau Table Lamp in Brass, Europe, 1920s. This is a wonderful and rare art nouveau table lamp in patinated brass. Very good and timeless design. Please note the 'wi...

French Art Nouveau stained-glass lantern, France, 1890-1900. Stained-glass and iron. Hammered cathedral glass. Full height: 36.2"(92cm) can be shortened, Diameter: 14"(35.4cm). Deliv...

Five-arm chandelier for the Welz Family in Vienna. Lit.: WW Archive at the MAK in Vienna. A three-arm version will cost about 2/3 of the five-arm version Length custom Most componen...

Late 19th century Arts and Crafts mission style swag / pendant light. Pyramid shaped with flared top, trimmed in brass with chain link design along lower edge. Light green and amber ...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Eleg...

Floor-lamp with opaline glass shade, designed for Villa Steiner, a famous house by Adolf Loos Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will UL-l...

Exceptional brass floor lamp with original hide skin shade. The lamp feature a heavy cast brass base, with a four socket light cluster, glass diffuser, and ...

Jugendstil ceiling lamp Vienna, circa 1908 with original glass shade Brass polished and stove enameled The glass shade is slightly green.       

The Cherry Lamp reflects a timeless design philosophy, blending the romantic charm of the past with the sophistication of modern living. Its velvet lampshade exudes vintage allure wi...

An outstanding Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period harp desk lamp By Tiffany Studios New York, USA, Early 20th century Gilt bronze, with beautiful...

Around 1900 in Vienna the private houses were connected to the electricity grid. At that time the common gaslights were changed to the new technology. As well new chandelier were bui...

Small tiny pendant. Restored, brass polished Rewired: 1x40W, E25-E27 bulb US wiring compatible.

Art nouveau lamp circa 1910. Brass and copper base. Iridescent glass tulip signed Quezal. In perfect condition and electrified. Total height: 38.5 cm Base diameter: 15.5 cm Width: 30 cm Quezal Art Glass Quezal Art Glass – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2003 By Malcolm Mac Neil Some of the most beautiful and alluring art glass made in America during the early part of the 20th Century was made by the Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company. Often in the shape of blossoming lilies with brilliant gold interiors and colorfully decorated with floral and other motifs inspired by nature, Quezal art glass ranks right alongside the iridescent glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Frederick Carder. Quezal artisans created an extensive range of decorative and useful items, including vases, compotes, finger bowls, open salts, candle holders, and shades for lighting fixtures, which are equivalent in terms of beauty and quality of craftsmanship to Tiffany’s Favrile and Carder’s Aurene glass. In recent years, glass collectors have discovered anew the special charms and appeal of Quezal art glass, and collector desirability for this lovely glassware has increased dramatically. The Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company was incorporated a century ago, on March 27, 1902. It was founded by Martin Bach, Sr., Thomas Johnson, Nicholas Bach, Lena Scholtz, and Adolph Demuth. The factory was located on the corner of Fresh Pond Road and Metropolitan Avenue in Maspeth, Queens, New York. In October 1902, the trademark “Quezal” was successfully registered. By 1904, roughly fifty glassworkers were employed at the works. Martin Bach, Sr. was the president, proprietor, and guiding force behind this successful company. Born in 1862 in Alsace-Lorraine to German parents, he emigrated to the United States in 1891. Before his emigration, Bach worked in Saint-Louis, France, at the Saint-Louis Glass Factory. After Bach arrived in this country, he was hired by Louis C. Tiffany as the latter’s first batch-mixer or chemist at the newly established Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, in Corona, Queens. After a period of about eight years, Bach left Tiffany and established his own glassworks. By this time, Bach had already started his small family. He and his German-born wife, Anne-Marie Geisser, whom he married in the fall of 1889, in Paris, France, had three children. Two daughters, Jennie and Louise, were born in France and a son, Martin, Jr., was born in Corona. Bach was assisted by Thomas Johnson, an English immigrant, and Maurice Kelly, a native of Corona, both of whom were gaffers or master glassblowers. Johnson and Kelly helped pave the way for Quezal’s early accomplishments and later recognition. Thomas Johnson, like Bach, was a founding member and also previously employed by Louis C. Tiffany. Johnson’s association with Quezal, however, was relatively short lived. Around 1907, Johnson left for Somerville, Massachusetts, where he became involved in making Kew Blas glass, under William S. Blake at the Union Glass Company. Maurice Kelly’s tenure with Quezal was also brief. Kelly worked at Quezal from January 1902 until July 1904, but by November 1904, he was making Favrile glass at Tiffany Furnaces, where he would happily remain until 1918. To this day, the belief still exists that there once existed a man named Quezal, who worked for Louis C. Tiffany, and it is after him that Quezal glass is named. In truth, however, the founders of the Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company named the company and its products after one of the world’s most beautiful birds, the elusive and rare quetzal, which dwells in the treetops of the remote tropical forests of Central America. A rare company promotional brochure provides a vivid description of the quetzal: Of all the birds of the America’s, it is the most gorgeous. No more splendid sight is to be seen in all the world than a quezal, flying like a darting flame through the depths of a Central American forest. Its back is of a brilliant metallic green, so vivid it shines even in the twilight of the woods like a great emerald and its breast is a crimson so deep and bright that every motion of the wonderful creature is a flashing of rubies among the trees and giant creepers. It bears a true golden crown upon its head – a helmet of bright yellow and green, shaped just as the helmet of old Aztec kings were shaped. Its tail is composed of lacelike plumes, extending more than two and one-half feet beyond its body. The quezal was certainly an appropriate designation for the company’s resplendent glassware. One of the most prized characteristics of Quezal art glass is the shimmering and dazzling brilliance reflected in the iridescent surfaces on the interior as well as exterior of the glass. The radiant rainbow colors in metallic hues, including gold, purple, blue, green, and pink, to name only a few, were certainly inspired by the quetzal and its feathers. Not surprisingly, lustrous feathers, in shades of opal, gold, emerald, and blue, are among the most common decorative motifs encountered on Quezal glass. The enduring hallmark of Quezal art glass is its unique expression of the Art Nouveau style, based on organic shapes and naturalistic motifs coupled with technical perfection in the execution. Vases, compotes, drinking vessels, and shades for lighting fixtures were often fashioned to resemble flowers such as crocuses, tulips, calla lilies, casablanca lilies, and jack-in-the-pulpits. Variously colored inlaid threads of glass, pulled and twisted by hooks, simulate naturalistic floral and leaf patterns, lily pads, clover leafs, and vines. Opal, gold, and green colors prevail and the glass is generally opaque. Red is the rarest color of all. Compared with Tiffany’s Favrile glass, the crisp, vivid, and colorful decoration of Quezal art glass is distinctively precise, symmetrical, and restrained. Other Quezal wares recall shapes and styles favored in ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, as well as the Italian Renaissance and the Georgian period in England. This is especially true of classic-shaped vases and bowls of translucent amber glass, which have a single surface color such as iridescent gold or blue. Still, others were inspired by traditional Chinese and Japanese forms. The Gorham Manufacturing Company in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Alvin Silver Manufacturing Company in Sag Harbor, Long Island, purchased Quezal art glass, which they in turn embellished in their shops with silver overlay decoration in the fashionable Art Nouveau style and later resold. Gorham’s silver overlay designs mostly include stylized floral motifs. Alvin’s silver designs are wonderfully organic. One sumptuous design is of a group of sinuous iris blossoms with carefully articulated petals surrounded by attenuated meandering vines. Collectors should note that not all silver-deposit pieces are marked with a maker’s mark since the silversmith had to be quite careful not to damage the glass underneath. A rare 1907 retail catalog survives from Bailey, Banks, and Biddle Company, a luxury goods retailer in Philadelphia, which reveals original retail prices of Quezal art glass. A surprising revelation provided by this catalog is that Quezal art glass was nearly twice as expensive as comparable French imported glass made by such renowned firms as Gallé and Daum. Hock glasses, a stemmed glass used primarily for drinking German white wine, were sold by the dozen and retailed between $50 and $75. Fingerbowls were also sold by the dozen and retailed between $50 and $100. These high retail prices were nearly the same as those charged for Tiffany’s Favrile glass, and suggest Quezal art glass was also marketed towards the high-end or luxury market. Electricity was a brand new invention in the late 1800s and American glass manufacturers developed novel approaches for concealing the electric light bulb, which was rather harsh to the eye and perhaps unflattering to the domestic interior. Tiffany, Steuben, and Quezal responded to this need with the most extraordinary and beautiful art-glass shades, all of which were  hand-made and exquisitely fashioned. Many other companies also made art glass shades for table and floor lamps, electroliers, hallway fixtures, and wall sconces, but it was Quezal that excelled in this area and was the most prolific. Quezal art glass shades were available in an infinite variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and decorations. Some shades are formed and decorated as lilies while others are bell-shaped and have ribbed or textured decoration. Rims are usually plain but sometimes are notched or ruffled. Common motifs include feather or hooked feather, leaf and vine, applied flowers, drape, fishnet, King Tut, and spider webbing. The workmanship shown on most Quezal shades...

A superb example of Viennese style in the early 20th century. opaline-glass, handblown. Note that the lamp length is custom-made! Available in different sizes: Ø 35 or 50 cm. Origin...