Vintage French Brass Table Lamp, 1930s — Wide Disc Base with Rope-Twist Rim and Blue Painted Wood Column

The wide, low disc base was a favoured form for smaller French bedside and desk lamps through the early twentieth century, its broad footprint doing the work a taller stem might do elsewhere — keeping a compact lamp steady without adding height. This one carries that logic through with a confident rope-twist rim running the full circumference of its base.

This is a table lamp with a low, gadrooned brass disc base bordered by a continuous rope-twist edge and a raised guilloché-cast inner ring at its centre, rising through a short urn-form collar with a stiff-leaf lower band to a socket housing. The upper stem section is finished in a deep blue painted wood, giving the piece a two-tone contrast between gilt brass and painted colour that was common on lamps of this general period. We describe the base metal conservatively as gilt brass rather than solid brass as fact, since no alloy standard or maker's mark is visible in the photograph supplied.

It reaches us with the brass base in good, stable condition and the painted wood column sound with no losses noted in the image provided. We pass it on as received, its surface left to show its own honest wear rather than refreshed. Its low, wide profile suits a bedside table or a shelf where height is limited but presence still matters.

In plain terms: a French brass table lamp from the 1930s per the seller, with a blue painted wood column, standing about as tall as a rolled-up magazine, fitted with a B22 socket and rewired for safe, ready-to-use lighting.

DETAILS:
Size: approx. 21 cm high x 16 cm wide (8.25 x 6.25 inches)
Material: gilt brass base, painted wood column
Style-Period: French style, 1930s per seller, no date confirmed
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — we handle the paperwork, with all import duties paid by us; nothing to settle on delivery.
Electrical: fully rewired through our workshop before dispatch, B22 fitting, plug or adapter fitted for the buyer's country, delivered working and ready to use.
Condition: good vintage condition; brass base stable, painted wood column sound, no losses noted
Lampshade: sold without a shade — leaving you free to choose one that suits your room
Returns: accepted within 30 days.

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