Featured Any meaning to the design elements on this 1920s table lamp?

I’ve had my eye on this 1920s metal table lamp, with original paper shade, at a local antiques store, for some time, and because they are moving soon I decided to buy it.

It is described as a Spanish colonial revival lamp, but the shade seems to have some Deco-ish ray pattern. It’s hard to tell from the photos, but the very bottom edge of the paper shade has some green color, i.e. it’s not all blue. The rays remind me of the Arizona state flag, but that flag has no green in it.

The metal lamp base seems to have a similar finish (I can’t tell what kind of metal it is), except the oval-shaped center (where the red and blue stripe are) could have had a green polychrome finish at one point. There is a blue and red stripe on both sides.

I know we have a lot of experts on design from that era. How would you describe the various design elements and the lamp?

It seems to have a mixture of styles.

As it’s supposedly 1920s American I was wondering if the red and blue stripe were to signify something patriotic. Or, it also seems to evoke a car’s front grill.

I can’t get a higher resolution photo, but the various bulges in the top part of the center oval piece are not drips from poor casting, but part of the design. So, each side is symmetrical, but not the top part to the bottom part.

There are no makers marks on it, and the seller had no idea who made it.

 

I don't see Spanish Colonial Revival. And I think the shade might be a tad later than base. But could be wrong.

Debora

 

Interesting and unique but also a little odd looking. I would also have thought the shade is not original to the lamp.

 

Base is Eastlake style.

 

My grandparents had a lamp with a base like that.

 

So, 19th century/Victorian era?

Any idea as to what the blue and red polychrome stripes are for? I’ve seen a ton of antique table lamps but have never seen any with similar stripes.

 

Turn-ish of the century.

Debora

 

I have never seen stripes like that on a riser piece either.

Did you try the magnet test on the metals?

 

No, I didn’t think of that.

I wonder what the center oval design element is as well. As it’s cast it’s not a unique piece, and yet I haven’t seen anything else vaguely close to it. We have a very large, elaborately made stained glass lamp, and one of the members here was able to identify the base from a period catalogue.

Although I’m certainly not a vintage lighting expert, I haven’t seen polychrome on pieces this age. I think that’s why the antiques dealer pegged it as 1920s.

 

Are you sure the paint is original? It could have been added to integrate the base with a newer shade. And the switch looks as if it's been added/replaced at a later date.

Debora

 

This lamp has the same base as yours.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325357200397

Debora

 

Here is the same base on a different style of lamp - no idea what it means, though -

https://www.reddit.com/r/uraniumgla..._anyone_know_what_lamp_shade_originally_came/

 

The one my granparents had had a huge lampshade on it.

 

looks like the base was used on several different models........I'd like to see under the base..

 

Thanks everyone.

No doubt the switch on the bottom was added. I’ll try to get a photo of the underneath.

I’m also still looking online for examples of the oval section.

 

I’ve seen the same plinth on a different base. The lamp was from the 1930s; I see no reason to doubt that this one is also from the 1930s.

 

Here is something that's close and new in glass:

 

oh, I'll take that thank you !!

 

Not your question but... This is a palmette.

Debora