Fifteen Sevres Style Porcelain Table Lamp and Plates
Auction Date: October 14, 2022
Sold for: $738
Lot: 4089
All items mid-20th Century.
All styled with Marie Antoinettes monogram composed of myrtle leaves and roses, comprising a baluster form vase with gilt serpentine handles, now mounted as a table lamp, four foliate moulded rim dinner plates, and eleven Schumann reticulated dessert plates, each painted with bouquets in reserves, or in well, or to rims and centers.
Lamp marked with interlaced Ls. Dinner plates with crown over A and Made in France in red enamel. Dessert plates with printed marks for Schumann Dresden Made in Geramay. Retailers marked S. G. GUMP Co./San Francisco to underside in blue and lavender enamels. Some of these smaller plates are impressed 75 for 1975.
Approximate dimensions: The lamp, 18 1/2 H. to top of vase handles, 29 1/2 H. to top of knop. Dinner plates: 10 Diameter. Dessert plates: 8 1/2 Diameter..
Condition: Ovearll condition is very good. The lamp needs to be rewired. One of the dinner plates with 1/4 chip to rim. There are minor black dots from kiln blow outs, minor and very light scratches and wear to surfaces. Minor gilding wear to handles to lamp..