Antique Art Nouveau Panel Blue Slag Glass Lamp Bradley Hubbard E Miller Rainaud

Antique Art Nouveau Panel Blue Slag Glass Lamp – not marked but Bradley & Hubbard E Miller Rainaud Quality and Era. Metal frame appears to be zinc based spelter metal typical of many old lamps. Measures 21 high to the top of the cap. The bottom of the base is 7 1/4 across. The shade is 15 1/2″ wide and 6 1/2″ high. 6 original blue slag glass panels, 1 panel has a single crack at 1 corner, otherwise fine. Base has not cracks or damage. Wiring has been professionally replaced at one time and it works fine. My 12 photos should give you a detailed appraisal so please take a look. Guaranteed a genuine early 20th century era classic panel lamp. The shade and base are guaranteed original to each other and not a later marriage. Prices for Tiffany table lamps ran into the hundreds of dollars. Slag glass panel lamps, as theyre called today, with a few large pieces of glass fitted into a cast metal frame evolved as a way to create some of the effects of the leaded lamps without the high cost of labor and materials. That made them affordable for many more people. A 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Many manufacturers made this type of lamp. Often the lamps were not signed, but if they are marked, the makers name or mark is usually found cast into the metal on the underside of the base. Sometimes a mark is present on the metal edge of a shade or elsewhere on the base. Occasionally a surviving paper label is present. Miller and Bradley & Hubbard are two of the best known makers, in part because their marks are frequently seen. Miller was established in 1844 in Meriden, Conn. As Joel Miller and Son. The company got its start in lighting manufacture by producing metal candleholders, and then moved into kerosene lamps, gas lighting, and electric lighting as times changed. The name of the company changed too, becoming Edward Miller & Co. For a time, then The Miller Co. A mark of Miller or E M & CO on the base indicates a Miller lamp. Miller produced more expensive leaded glass lamps, but seized the opportunity to sell lighting for the middle classes as more and more homes were wired for electricity. A 1920 Philadelphia Electric Co. All the lamps are described as being cast metal openwork over light amber art glass and could be ordered in a variety of metal finishes including French brown, Grecian antique, Etruscan bronze and Florentine relief. While lamps were made with glass in colors other than amber, or caramel as it is often called now, amber predominates. According to a lighting catalog from the period, Amber is the color used in all [our] lamps. Amber has, by scientific tests been proven to be easiest on the eyes, and most restful when reading. Also located in Meriden, Conn. The Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Co. Produced many slag glass lamps. Bradley & Hubbard also made other metal goods like bookends, inkwells and spittoons. Marked slag glass lamps typically have a genie style oil lamp surrounded by a triangle and the words Bradley & Hubbard Mfg. Found somewhere on the base and the company name in uppercase text on the inner rim of a shade. Other period manufacturers of slag glass lamps include the Empire Lamp Mfg. In Chicago, Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass, and Glass Co. In Pittsburgh, and H. The market for dramatic, heavy lamps with glass shades faded and manufacturers responded with cheaper, lightweight lamps with paper or fabric shades. Slag glass lamps remain the embodiment of a time when the country was surging forward with a lightness of spirit and the bright promises of electricity for all. The item “Antique Art Nouveau Panel Blue Slag Glass Lamp Bradley Hubbard E Miller Rainaud” is in sale since Sunday, January 22, 2017. This item is in the category “Antiques\Decorative Arts\Lamps”. The seller is “spooknook” and is located in Weymouth, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Primary Material: Glass
• Color: Blue
• Style: Art Nouveau