Torch Wall Sconces PairBlack and Brass Star Sconces with Frosted Glass Shades — French, 1940s–50s

DETAILS:
Each sconce: Height 33 cm (13 in) · Width 9 cm (3.5 in) · Depth 15 cm (5.9 in) — each roughly the height of a wine bottle
Black-lacquered metal torch with brass stars; brass mounts; frosted glass tulip shades · Sold as a pair
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 condition; glasses intact, mellowed brass, light age-consistent marks to lacquer

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

In the Paris of the 1940s and 50s, wall lighting rediscovered the torch — not the carved gilt torch of the Empire mantel, but a sleeker one: a tapering black cone tipped in brass, held to the wall like a flambeau at a doorway, its flame a tulip of frosted glass. Makers of the period dressed these torches in the decade's favourite emblem, the small gilt star, scattered as if the torch had been lit under a night sky.

This pair is French, from the 1940s–50s: each sconce a tapering torch of black-lacquered metal appliquéd with small brass stars, ending below in a turned brass tip, held to a round brass backplate by a sphere, and carrying above a bulbous frosted glass shade on a polished brass cup. Light them and watch the division of labour — the frosted tulip glows soft and shadowless while the black torch beneath all but disappears against the wall, leaving the stars and brass floating; the two-material trick is the whole design. The pair has been newly re-electrified, takes B22 bayonet bulbs, and arrives prepared for wall installation, in working order.

Both glasses are intact and the finishes carry the soft patina of their years — the brass mellowed, the black lacquer with light age-consistent marks — as the photographs show. Whoever lit their hallway with this pair before you kept them together. They are ready to flank a mirror, a bed, or march down a corridor.

The pair is newly re-electrified metal and glass, in working order. 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.

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