Blue and Gold Living Room Lamp
Blue ceramic lamp partially covered with gold leaf powder. The lamp shade is in off-white fabric with a gold line on top and on bottom.
Signed: Jean Besnard France under the vase.
Circa: 1930.
Dimensions :
Full height: 28 ¼ in. Foot height: 15 in.
Diameter of the foot: 8 ¼ in. Diameter of the lampshade: 14 ½ in.
Remarks:
Besides his incised artworks, Jean Besnard also develops a decorative vocabulary centred on plain and full shapes brighten up with crackled golden powder. This aesthetic, laying on contrasts between dull and bright, perfectly fits the new Art Deco style.
