Lot 172
172
A BRONZE AND GLASS CEILING LIGHT

HECTOR GUIMARD, CIRCA 1908

Details
A BRONZE AND GLASS CEILING LIGHT
Hector Guimard, circa 1908
The shaped circular ceiling mount cast with a whiplash motif, the fluted cylindrical support holding pierced circular framework delicately cast with whiplash motif suspending three rectangular panels enclosing aqua blue glass, decorated with pendent bronze rods, glass beads and tubing
20in. (68.5cm.) long from ceiling, 7½in. (19cm.) diameter
Provenance
Lillian Nassau, New York

Lot Essay

cf. Wolf Uecker, Lampen und Leuchter, 1978, p. 112, fig. 165 for an illustration of this model and Phillipe Thiebaut, Guimard, 1992, p. 385, pl. 35 for an illustration of this model which is in the permanent collection of the Museé D'Orsay, Paris.