Featured Aesthetic Lamp

Hey folks:

Another treasure from the lamp show. This is a table lamp from the 1880s Aesthetic Movement (a personal fave...), with a mighty fine patina on the brass base. The cameo shade is English, by Webb, but the base is unmarked. If any of you eagle eyes can identify a maker, I'd love to see it.

About 10 minutes after I purchased the lamp (but had not picked it up yet), another buyer came along and offered as much for the shade alone as I paid for the whole thing. Now THAT'S the kind of appreciation we antique lovers like to see!

 

nice find !!!!!!

 

That shade is outrageously attractive, Hopper!
The color is beyond my ability to name...blue-green doesn't do it any justice.

 

@Ghopper1924 - I am going to have to wear a very large overcoat when I come to visit you so I can smuggle this lamp out the door with me!!

It is truly spectacular!!!

 

That coloooor!! What a beautiful piece. The graphic design on the shade is so well thought out and the base so charming.

 

Love Aesthetic-It's a perfect blend of Victorian & Meiji (or Victorian Meiji !), plus there's frequently something woven into the design for the bug lover (@kyratango ).

 

^^^ What they said! I’m not at all surprised someone else wanted that shade <wipes drool off chin>

 

I'm happy you got there five minutes before the other guy! That's one heckuva lamp. Was it converted, or is it just new enough that it was always electric?

 

clear straight-on images might help; the back lighting of the bulb is diffusing the clarity.
Webb has a similar cameo fuchsia patttern:
webb cameo glass fuchsia - page 1 | WorthPoint

 

Re Tall's image-#9 ('IMPORTANT NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH CAMEO GLASS A REMARKABLE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE IN CHINESE STYLE, CUT BY KRETSCHMAN AND COLOURED BY JULES BARGE') is extraordinary.Thanks Cakes.

 

That base has been niggling the back of my brain. Something I have seen before. Most likely English but I can not come up with anything

 

It does kinda-sorta ring bells, but what bells and from where I have no idea.