Marcel Vasseur & Daum

A wonderful French art deco lamp made around 1925 in wrought iron of excellent quality. The forged base holds a beautiful shade in mottled glass produced by Daum.  It is signed with the usual Daum Nancy France signature scratched in the warm glass paste.
The lamp was made by Marcel Vasseur a blacksmith who had like E.Brandt and R.Subes a large workshop in Paris making pieces both on command as for his own outlet. Vasseur was represented at the 1925 art décorative exhibit in Paris. The company used several different brands of shades on its lamps. Muller ones in clear moulded-pressed glass as well as Daum Muller or Schneider shades in double layered hand-blown glass with colour inclusions. The Vasseur catalog is of course no part of this sale.

The lamp is 28,9 cm high. And the shade has a diameter of 12,5 cm. The lamp is in excellent condition. And comes rewired with new cloth covered twisted cord and a stylish brass and porcelain E14 socket so you will have no difficulties finding suitable bulbs for it. Originally old French lamps had B22 bayonet sockets. But they are very unpractical. Good quality modern light bulbs are hardly available. And for professional restorers 90 years old sockets are forbidden to use. So I wire lamps as these with E14 sockets for which bulbs are widely available. For European countries I will add a 15 watt bulb. For the States or Japan I will rewire the lamp with a US candelabra base socket and US 2-prong plug.