Mirror Wall Sconces PairArt Deco Style Mirrored Sconces with Glass Arms — French, 1940s

DETAILS:
Size: each — Height 15 cm (5.9 in) without shade · Width 12 cm (4.7 in) · Projection from wall 15 cm (5.9 in) — each roughly the size of a paperback
Material: mirrored glass plates, bevelled; clear pressed glass arms and flowers; brass mounts
Style/Period: Art Deco taste, French, 1940s
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — US import duties covered; local import taxes and duties elsewhere may apply and are payable by the recipient
Electrical: Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use. Wall installation by a qualified electrician.
Condition: great vintage condition; mirror plates and glass arms intact, minor age softening to silvering at edges, brass evenly mellowed
Lampshade: sold without shades — small clip-on shades suit them, leaving you free to choose ones that fit your room
Returns: accepted within 30 days

The mirrored sconce is 1940s France solving light shortage with elegance: put the wall light on a mirror, and one bulb becomes two. The idea descends from the girandoles of the eighteenth century, but the 1940s ateliers — working in the taste made famous by Maison Baguès — stripped it to essentials: a bevelled mirror plate, a curl of glass for the arm, and the reflection doing half the work of the fixture.

This pair is French, from the 1940s, in the Art Deco taste: each sconce a shield-form mirror plate with canted top corners and bevelled edges, carrying a scrolled arm of clear glass finished with a pressed glass flower, rising through a brass ring platform to the socket cup — with the mirror doubling arm, flower, and flame behind. Watch the sconce as you cross the room — the reflected arm moves against the real one, so the fixture changes composition with every step, the living effect the mirror plate exists to create. Both mirror plates and both glass arms are intact, in great vintage condition. The pair takes B22 bayonet bulbs, is fully rewired through our workshop before dispatch, and arrives prepared for wall installation, in working order.

The mirrors carry their silvering well with only minor age softening at the edges, and the brass mounts are evenly mellowed, as the photographs show. Whoever hung this pair before you kept both glass arms unbroken through eighty years — no small custodianship. They are made for flanking a mirror, a bed, or bringing light to a dressing room.

The pair is mirror, glass, and brass, rewired before dispatch. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — worldwide shipping and US import duties are included. For other destinations, local import taxes and duties may apply and are payable by the recipient. Returns are accepted within 30 days.

Condition

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Worldwide delivery is included in the price. Every piece is individually packed, tracked and fully insured. No shipping charge is added at checkout. If your destination is not listed, please contact us before ordering.

Maison Jaspers pays US tariffs and import duties. For other destinations, local import taxes and duties may apply and are payable by the recipient. Contact us before ordering if you need destination-specific guidance.

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