Pair of Art Deco Ceramic Table Lamps, Flambé Glaze, Belgium, 1920s, New Lampshades

Antique Art Deco ceramic table lamp pair in a rare flowing flambé drip glaze from Faïenceries de Thulin in Belgium. Paired with new cream pleated silk lampshades by Amitābha Studio, new brass fittings, and newly wired with fabric wrapped cords. Plugs will be fitted for your country of use. Height includes lampshade. Each base is built on a tall baluster profile, narrow through the waist and rising to a generous shouldered swell beneath a thick, rolled cobalt collar. Over that form runs one of the most expressive glaze effects of the Belgian Art Deco potteries. Dark cobalt blue streams down from the neck through cream and oxblood, mixing into deep aubergine and chestnut brown. Surviving as an intact pair, they are increasingly difficult to find together. Each earthenware base is impressed underneath with the model number 56 and "Made in Belgium." About Faïenceries de Thulin The faïence of Thulin, near Mons in the Belgian Hainaut, is among the most distinctive of the Art Deco period. Founded in 1887 by the industrialist Victor Ducobu-Decaudin and reorganized as the Société Anonyme des Faïenceries de Thulin in 1923, the factory cast its wares in fine earthenware and finished them in colored enamels, employing some seventy to a hundred workers through the 1920s and 1930s and selling in Belgium and Paris. It was known above all for its glazing: differently colored enamels were poured from the top of a piece and allowed to run downward, producing the fluid, unrepeatable flambé seen here. Its forms tended to be bolder than those of rival potteries, and pieces of this period are frequently marked, as these are, simply "Made in Belgium" with an impressed model number.