Vasseur & Schneider - French art deco lamp

MARCEL VASSEUR & CHARLES SCHNEIDER A wonderful French art deco lamp made around 1925-1930 done in wrought iron of excellent quality. The forged base holds a large shade in double layered mottled white glass produced by Charles Schneider. It is signed in the usual Schneider signature used around 1926 onwards. On these white Schneider shades the signature is always very vague and often invisible with bare eye. The lamp was made by Marcel Vasseur a blacksmith who like E. Brandt and R. Subes had a large workshop in Paris making pieces both on command as for his own outlet. Vasseur was represented at the 1925 art décorative exhibit in Paris. The company used shades from several different glass factories for its fixtures. Muller ones in clear moulded-pressed glass as well as Daum or Schneider shades in double layered handblown glass with colour inclusions. The lamp is 40 cm high. And the Schnieider shade has a diameter of 15,3 cm and a height of 16,4. It is in excellent condition. With a beautiful deep-brown patina with a subtle egg gloss. It comes rewired with new cloth covered twisted cord and a stylish brass and porcelain E14 socket so you will have no difficulties finding suitable bulbs for it. Originaly old French lamps had B22 bayonet sockets. But they are very unpractical. Good quality modern light bulbs are hardly available. And for professional restorers 90 years old sockets are forbidden to use. So I wire lamps as these with E14 sockets for which bulbs are widely available. For European countries I will add a bulb. For the States or Japan I will rewire the lamp with an American candelabra base socket and US 2-prong plug. The Vasseur catalog is of coarse no part of this sale. Safe packaging guaranteed : As specialized restorer of French art Deco lighting for over 20 years I ship my parcels worldwide with the fragile items well protected and fully insured.