Design - 17th October 2018
Lot 1480
Leo Laporte-Blairsy (1865-1923) La Voie Lactee (The Milky Way) a fine Art Nouveau patinated...
Estimate £20,000 - £30,000 | Hammer £22000
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Description
Leo Laporte-Blairsy (1865-1923)
La Voie Lactee (The Milky Way)
a fine Art Nouveau patinated bronze table lamp, with cased blue glass shade probably made by Daum, the shade and bronze with star aperture to emit light,
signed in the cast
41.5cm. high
Provenance
Colonel George Winch (Style & Winch Brewery)
Michael Bluett Winch, circa 1953, thence by descent.
Literature
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau, The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, page 270 for a comparable example illustrated. An example of this spectacular bronze lamp was exhibited at the Salon of the Societe des Artistes Francais in 1904.