👀V RARE Antique LOETZ STYLE CZECH PAPILLION IRIDESCENT EGG LAMP 18” Spiral C1880


This listing is for AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING Art Nouveau, iridescent egg shape glass shade pattern in the PAPILLON ROSE PURPLE rainbow colourway of cream with iridescence of pinks and blue and green. The egg is cased the inside is milk glass and the base edge is engine cut and polished.

A beautiful item
..without damage.

The iridescent glass egg certainly doesn't need a lamp to be worth displaying, just make sure it's placed where is catches the light! But
.amazingly the lamp is complete as it was sold probably late 19th or early 20th century. The base is chrome finished and the stem is spiral twisted so that catches a great deal of light in itself but then the eye is irresistibly drawn to the main event
an incredible egg shaped shade with iridescence from top to bottom.


Once seen one can hardly turn away
.its a real eye pleaser 
.but it is the iridescence which teases the eye as wherever one moves a difference nuance of colour comes to show off!!


I am not an expert but I thought it was a Tiffany lamp because of the way the shapes of the splatter move from a centre like a volcano upwards but when I had researched it I found one other example so feel sure that although it is not signed the comparisons point to LOETZ
especially the egg shape and size
.please see my photos!!

It certainly is a superb centrepiece, a must have for the collector of the rarest and finest of glass examples

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MEASUREMENTS: Height 18” x base diameter 5 1/2”. The egg itself measures 7” x 5” approx.


CONDITION: The lamp is in working order
and I have tried to show in th photos the light when on compared with the ordinary daylight conditions. The cable is one meter long. The chrome is a little pitted on the base but the twisted stem is near perfect. There are some small amount of pitting to the top of the stand where the glass egg is held with three screws just to meet the egg..not to tighten too much or the egg will crackđŸ˜±)

The remarkable event is that there is no damage on the egg or on its base rim where it sits on the chrome dish where it is safely secured by the three screws


The base of the lamp itself has old baize which has some moth holes
see photos. I could easily replace it if required. I have left it to show age.


I found this on Google:

Unusually tall, high iridescent Loetz glass vase in the less commonly seen ruby or rubin ground with papillon decor c1900. Ruby ground with iridescent papillon finish giving a brilliant rainbow of colours from iridescent violet and blues at its base through to gold and amber at its rim. Compressed footed body with elongated tapering neck finishing with a gently flared-out rim. The vase is 31 cm in height.

Johann Loetz was a glassmaker about whom little is known. It was his widow Susanne who was the start of Loetz after her second husband (Frank Gerstner) bought a glassworks in Southern Bohemian – transferring ownership to her shortly before his death in 1855. Susanne successfully led and expanded the company (known as Johann Loetz Witwe) – passing it to her son-in-law (Maximilian von Spaun) in 1879. He modernised the factory and introduced new patented techniques and processes. Maximilian first saw Tiffany’s Favrile glass exhibited in Bohemia and Vienna in 1897 - convincing him that the Art Nouveau style would be the company's future. The next decade was to be the most artistically significant and profitable period for Loetz. However, despite further artistic collaborations and new designs, sales started to decline in the 1900’s and by 1911 Loetz needed additional funds from the von Spaun family. The departure of Loetz's artistic director in 1913 followed by a major fire and the outbreak of WWI virtually sealed the company's fate. Loetz had a slight but brief revival after the war however the Great Depression in the late 1920s and another major fire in 1930 had a devastating impact and Loetz declared bankruptcy in 1939 following the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. The glassworks manufactured utilitarian glassware for the Third Reich throughout WWII, but ultimately closed down completely in 1947.


THE HISTORY OF CHROME PLATING as found on Google:

While the idea of electroplating in general was developed in the early 19th century, it wasn’t until the early 20th century that chromium plating began.

It’s clear to see these early companies had high hopes for the success of chromium plating, and they were right. Chromium plating’s popularity took off rapidly. When something was chrome, consumers knew it would have a shiny, sleek appearance and would be more durable with greater corrosion resistance.


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