{"product_id":"antique-french-bouillotte-lamp-signed-85463","title":"Antique French Bouillotte Lamp, Signed HM, Silvered Bronze with Green Tole Shade — France, 20th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe bouillotte lamp was invented for the card table and never entirely left it. Named after the French gambling game played by candlelight in the salons of the late eighteenth century, it solved a specific problem with unusual elegance: how to light a table from above without blinding the players seated around it. The shade — a metal cylinder, closed at the top, open at the bottom — directed all the light downward onto the baize while leaving the faces of the players in shadow. The shade lowers along the stem as the candles burn down, keeping the light always just above the flames — a mechanism so precisely considered that it remained unchanged from the Directoire period through the Second Empire and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis lamp is French, 20th century, signed HM, in silvered bronze with the original green tole shade. The base is a circular platform in silvered bronze, its edge shaped in the rocaille manner with a dolphin or leaf mount at the front — the decorative detail that places this lamp in the Empire-Napoléon III tradition rather than the starker Directoire form. Two candle arms rise from the body on either side, each with a bobèche and socket; the central stem rises through the shade to an urn finial at the crown, with the height-adjustment mechanism — a locking lever — sitting at mid-stem. The green tole shade is the drum form with a gilt-trimmed upper rim, its dark green precisely the colour that the original bouillotte shades were lacquered in — warm enough to complement the bronze, dark enough to contain the light. The HM signature, struck into the bronze, marks a maker working within the established Parisian lamp trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lamp has come through in very good order. The silvered bronze is sound; the green shade is present and intact; the height mechanism functions. It arrives fully rewired and ready to use, plug adapted to your country at no charge — ready for a desk, a reading table, or a library console where directed downward light is exactly what is needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt arrives professionally packed and fully insured. All duties and import charges are our responsibility — you pay nothing beyond the listed price. Returns are accepted within 30 days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDETAILS:\u003cbr\u003e\nSize: Height 46 cm (18.1 in) · Base diameter 11.5 cm (4.5 in) · Shade diameter 21.5 cm (8.5 in) · Shade height 9.5 cm (3.7 in)\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial: silvered bronze base and arms; green lacquered tole shade with gilt trim\u003cbr\u003e\nStyle\/Period: French Empire–Napoléon III, 20h century — signed HM\u003cbr\u003e\nSockets: two — fully rewired and ready to use; plug adapted to your country (US\/UK\/EU) at no extra charge\u003cbr\u003e\nLampshades: original green tole shade included\u003cbr\u003e\nShipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — all import duties paid by us, nothing to settle on delivery\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: very good; silvered bronze sound; green shade intact; height mechanism functional\u003cbr\u003e\nReturns: accepted within 30 days\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Jaspers","offers":[{"title":"US","offer_id":59449625444697,"sku":"LM-V-209","price":802.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"UK","offer_id":59449625477465,"sku":"LM-V-209","price":802.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"EU","offer_id":59449625510233,"sku":"LM-V-209","price":802.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/5388\/5529\/files\/il_fullxfull.8526575310_r1ym.jpg?v=1789551554","url":"https:\/\/maisonjaspers.com\/products\/antique-french-bouillotte-lamp-signed-85463","provider":"Maison Jaspers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}