a brass table-lamp

DESIGNED BY JAN EISENLOEFFEL, CIRCA 1903-1909

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a brass table-lamp
Designed by Jan Eisenloeffel, circa 1903-1909
The stepped circular foot tapering towards a cylindrical stem with compressed knob near base and top, surmounted with a three-pronge arm supporting the openworked flaring cylindrical shade with scalloped edges and with flaring finial, engraved and chased with linear and gemoetrical motifs, the foot with three roundels with linear engraved edge enclosing a geometrical chased motif, shade lined with red silk (silk not original), fitted for electricity
73.5cm. high

Lot Essay

cf. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse and Emke Raassen-Kruimel, Jan Eisenloeffel 1876-1957, Zwolle, 1996, pp. 170-178 and no. 146 for an illustration of a catalogue page of the Vereinigte Werkstätten, Mnchen, on which an identical but smaller lamp is illustrated under DW 206 (De Woning 206)

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