{"product_id":"antique-french-bronze-column-table-lamp-36484","title":"Antique French Bronze Column Table Lamp, Garnier Paris, Restauration Period — France, Early 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Restauration period — the years between Napoleon's fall and the July Monarchy of 1830 — produced some of the most considered bronze work in French decorative history. The great Parisian bronziers, among them Garnier of Paris, had inherited the Empire's technical standards and its vocabulary of classical ornament, but the mood had shifted: less military triumph, more architectural refinement. The column lamp was the period's most characteristic lighting form — a shaft drawn directly from antiquity, dressed in the ornament of ancient Rome and Greece, and placed on a desk or console to announce that its owner understood where civilisation had come from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis lamp is French, early nineteenth century, by the Parisian bronzier Garnier, and it is built as a fluted column in two patinas: a dark brown shaft wound with ivy trails climbing between the flutes, banded at the capital with a frieze of rosette medallions, and crowned with a gilt palmette capital whose leaves open like a hand — the transition from column to light. The base is a circular drum of dark patinated bronze, its shoulder enriched with a wave-scroll border and rising through a tier of acanthus to the column proper. Note how the ivy climbing the shaft interrupts the geometry of the fluting without breaking it — the ornament grows from the architecture rather than being applied to it, the discipline that separates a bronzier working from a design from one assembling motifs. The two-tone patina — dark shaft against gilt capital and base — is original to the period and gives the piece its particular authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhoever kept this lamp before you respected it well. The bronze carries an honest working patina consistent with nearly two centuries of indoor use; the casting is sound throughout. It arrives fully rewired and ready to use, plug adapted to your country at no charge — ready for a desk, a library console, or a side table that can carry its scale.\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 64 cm with socket (25.2 in) · 57.5 cm without socket (22.6 in) · Base diameter 17 cm (6.7 in) — roughly the height of two stacked hardcover books\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial: patinated bronze, dark brown shaft and base with gilt bronze capital and base mouldings\u003cbr\u003e\nStyle\/Period: French Restauration period, early 19th century — by Garnier, Paris\u003cbr\u003e\nWeight: 5 kg (11 lb)\u003cbr\u003e\nElectrical: fully rewired before dispatch; plug or adapter fitted for the buyer's country; delivered working and ready to use\u003cbr\u003e\nLampshades: not 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 antique condition; honest working patina consistent with age; casting sound throughout\u003cbr\u003e\nReturns: accepted within 30 days\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Jaspers","offers":[{"title":"US","offer_id":59338329850201,"sku":"LM-E-226","price":1424.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"UK","offer_id":59338329882969,"sku":"LM-E-226","price":1424.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"EU","offer_id":59338329915737,"sku":"LM-E-226","price":1424.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/5388\/5529\/files\/il_fullxfull.8492748184_101e.jpg?v=1788875954","url":"https:\/\/maisonjaspers.com\/products\/antique-french-bronze-column-table-lamp-36484","provider":"Maison Jaspers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}