Mirrored Wall Sconces PairBlack and Brass Sconces with Striped Frosted Glass Flames — French, 1950s–60s

DETAILS:
Size: each — Total height 33 cm (13 in) · Width 16 cm (6.3 in) · Projection from wall 10 cm (3.9 in) · Glass: 24 cm long, 7 cm at widest (9.4 × 2.8 in) — each roughly the height of a wine bottle
Material: black-lacquered metal body, brass bracket, arm, and gallery, cast gilt ornament; striped frosted glass shades
Style/Period: French, 1950s–60s — in the taste of the Paris houses (Maison Charles, Arlus, Lunel); maker undetermined
Weight: 700 g each (1.5 lb); approx. 1.4 kg the pair
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — we handle the paperwork
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.
Condition: good used condition; light wear to lacquer and brass consistent with age
Lampshade: original striped frosted glass shades included
Returns: accepted within 30 days

Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use.

The great Parisian lighting houses of the 1950s — Maison Charles, Arlus, Lunel — shared a language even when they signed nothing: black lacquer against polished brass, a cast ornament placed like a brooch, and above it all a flame of glass. Sconces in this taste treated the wall fitting as tailoring — a dark cylinder dressed with one gilt detail — and let the tall frosted shade do the illumination.

This pair is French, from the 1950s–60s, in the taste of those Paris houses, and properly mirrored — a left and a right: each sconce a black-lacquered cylindrical body mounted off a brass wall bracket, dressed at the front with a cast gilt leaf ornament, from which a slender brass arm curves out and up to a pierced gallery ring carrying a tall, slender flame of frosted glass, blown with soft vertical white stripes and waisted like a bottle. Hold a shade to the light — the stripes are in the glass, opaque ribbons alternating with translucent ones, so the lit shade reads as a column of soft vertical flames rather than a plain glow, the effect the whole design is built around. Both glasses are intact. Our workshop will inspect and test both sconces before dispatch, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed, and arrives prepared for wall installation, in working order.

The black lacquer and brass carry good honest use, with light wear consistent with their decades, as the photographs show. Whoever hung this mirrored pair before you kept both slender glasses unbroken — no small thing at twenty-four centimetres of thin frosted glass apiece. They are ready to flank a bed, a mirror, or a doorway.

The pair is lacquered metal, brass, and striped frosted glass, mirrored left and right, checked before dispatch. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping. Returns are accepted within 30 days.

Condition

Electrical details

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A decorative style is not a guarantee of a particular maker or date. See the individual listing for the stated attribution and period.

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.

European Union: no customs and no import charges. Delivery usually takes 2–5 working days after dispatch.

United States: Maison Jaspers pays the tariffs and import duties for you.

United Kingdom: UK import VAT is payable on delivery (5% for antiques over 100 years old, otherwise 20%).

Other destinations: local import taxes may apply and are payable by the recipient. Contact us before ordering if you would like guidance.

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