1990s French Bouilotte Table Lamp

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This item is a brass French horn Bouillotte style lamp, typically featuring two horn shaped candleholders and an oval black … Read more This item is a brass French horn Bouillotte style lamp, typically featuring two horn shaped candleholders and an oval black metal tole shade. The shade is often adjustable, moving up and down the center rod with a key or screw.
The Lamp is designed in the traditional French Bouillotte style, named after an 18 century card game, original Bouillotte lamps, used candles, with the adjustable shade allowing players to lower the shade as the candles burned down to reduce glare.
This specific design incorporates French horns or bugles, as Decorative elements around the center column.
It is primarily made of polished brass with a black shade.
While this lamp is not branded, brand such as Frederick Cooper, Chapman, and Wildwood are known to have produced similar horn style Bouillotte lamps.
The lamp itself is 25 inches from the bottom of the base to the top of the finial. The base of the lamp is 7” x 4.5”.
The shade is 15 inches wide 7.5 inches deep and 5.5 inches high. See less