AN AMSTERDAM SCHOOL WOODEN AND LEADED GLASS FLOOR-LAMP, executed by the firm of W. Bogtman, Haarlem, octagonal spreading wooden base surmounted with a cross-section column narrowing to shaped cylindrical top, decorated in the Batik-technique with dots, geometrical and curvilinear decoration, fitted with a double dome-shape shade, consisting of various shaped and curved amber acid-etched panels of leaded glass, stained with polychrome stylized floral motifs, fitted for electricity (one panel with minor crack)

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AN AMSTERDAM SCHOOL WOODEN AND LEADED GLASS FLOOR-LAMP, executed by the firm of W. Bogtman, Haarlem, octagonal spreading wooden base surmounted with a cross-section column narrowing to shaped cylindrical top, decorated in the Batik-technique with dots, geometrical and curvilinear decoration, fitted with a double dome-shape shade, consisting of various shaped and curved amber acid-etched panels of leaded glass, stained with polychrome stylized floral motifs, fitted for electricity (one panel with minor crack)
175 cm high

Lot Essay

The firm of Bogtman was one of the only workshops to apply the Batik-technique to wood

cf.Textuur 30, May, 1991, Nederlands Textiel Museum, for an illustration of a hanging-shade with a decoration in the Batik-technique designed by Bogtman in 1920

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