Sevres Style Landscape Table Lamp
A Sevres style porcelain table lamp, the ovoid lamp base painted with panels of a landscape and a romantic couple, signed 'Damis' reserved within a gilt border on a bleu-royale ground raised upon an ormolu column and plinth base and with scrolling handles fixed to the sides. Tapering oval section silk shade. Height 34.25 in.
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- Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.
- Ormolu - Ormolu was popular with French craftsmen in the 18th and 19th century for ornamental fittings for furniture, clocks and other decorative items. True ormolu is gilt bronze, that is bronze that has been coated with gold using a mercury amalgam. Due to the health risks associated with using mercury, this method of creating ormolu was discontinued in France in the 1830s. A substitute was developed consisting of about 75% copper and 25% zinc, however it was inferior to the bronze version. It was often lacquered to prevent it tarnishing.
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