Gold Wall Sconces

GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925

GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925

GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925
Nicolas Gillen & verreries des Hanots. A beautiful pair of early Nicolas Gillen French art deco uplight wall sconces made around 1925-26 in gilt solid bronze or brass. Nicolas Gillen had a small workshop at 9 rue St-Ambroise in Paris. The bronze lighting fixtures Gillen made were of eminent design and execution.

The wall lights hold shades in frosted moulded-pressed glass made by Verreries des Hanots, like Verlys a devision of the large Holophane glass factories. The shades are unsigned, like many Hanots models, the bronze mounts are numbered and monogrammed.

Difficult to read on one. But the other clearly shows the NG marks for Nicolas Gillen. The sconces are 36 cm high (14-11/64) and the shades have a diameter of 11 cm.

The sconces project some 17 cm from the wall. They are in excellent condition. I have cleaned and rewired the fixtures. For the US I will wire them with American candelabra base sockets.

For European countries I will place E14 ones. When you make an offer please let me know to which country I must send the lamp so that I can calculate my best price. Check out over 300 other French art deco lamps in my shop.

Art deco lamps made in France were equiped with B22 bayonet sockets. For most countries like Europe or the US such sockets are practicaly impossible to use.

For instance in the States 110 volt bulbs with B22 fitters are obscure, very hard to find and only one model bulb in very limited wattages is available. In spite of what sellers of unrestored pieces of poor quality claim in their ads when they offer lamps with bayonet caps sockets : except for the UK and Australia French chandeliers and lamps need to be rewired for your country.

In order to fit Edison large or small screw base bulbs as used in the USA, B22 sockets have to be replaced by American candelabra base or standard/medium size Edison screw-in sockets. E14 and E27 are modern replacements for European countries.

An additional complication is that the size thread used in early French lighting to connect the sockets to the chandelier mountings or lamp bases is not compatible with the modern size threads used in the USA and Europe. New American or European sockets do not just screw on to the old lamp fixtures. In order to make it possible to use an original old French chandelier or lamp with modern screw bulb bases, a specialized restorer will have to re-tap the threads. All my cleaned and restored chandeliers, sconces and lamps come rewired with the correct sockets you will need to use modern bulbs in your country.

The item "GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925" is in sale since Tuesday, September 24, 2019. This item is in the category "Antiques\Architectural & Garden\Chandeliers, Sconces & Lighting Fixtures". The seller is "paravas" and is located in Rotterdam.

This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Country of Origin: France
  • Style: Art Deco
  • Decade: 1920s
  • Maker: Gillen & Hanots
  • Material: Brass
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
  • Type: Sconce
  • Features: Gilded
  • Color: Gold

GILLEN & HANOTS PAIR FRENCH ART DECO WALL SCONCES. 1930 lights muller era 1925