The Empire style that took hold in France in the early 1800s drew heavily on classical imagery — swans, urns, laurel — and never entirely left European decorating. Decades later, mid-century workshops kept producing lighting in that same vocabulary for a public that still wanted the drama of empire on a hallway wall, without needing an actual period piece to get it.
This pair, in that Empire style and dating to the 1950s, carries the vocabulary in full: each sconce's arm sweeps outward in a swan-neck curve from an urn-shaped body finished in teal-green with red decorative accents, crowned with a gilt bronze feathered crest. Note how the swan neck curves in one continuous, unbroken line from crest to candle arm rather than joining at a visible seam — the mark of a well-executed casting rather than a piece assembled from separate stamped parts. Gold-tone fan-shaped drip pans and a scrolled, rope-twist base finish the silhouette below.
Whoever hung this pair before you kept them well. Both sconces show honest, age-consistent wear to the finish and gilt detailing, and both are wired and working. They are ready for a hallway, staircase, or entryway wall.
Each sconce arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping. Returns are accepted within 30 days.
DETAILS:
Height: 22 cm (8.7 in) · Width (spout to spout): 15.6 cm (6.1 in) · Candle sleeve diameter: 4.5 cm (1.8 in)
Materials: bronze/metal, gold-tone finish
Electrical: wired and working
Condition: good vintage condition; honest wear and patina consistent with age
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