Pair of celadon porcelain baluster lamps in the Louis XVI style. The body is decorated with a medallion in a frame with a floral motif in white enamel. Gilt bronze mounting with a frieze of laurel leaves and a scalloped base in the corners.
French work made circa 1880.
New and functional electrical system.
! The price indicated does not include the lampshade. Our workshop can however advise you with pleasure and realize it according to your choices of size and color (to ask)!
The celadon designates both a color and a type of ceramic specific to China and the Far East. "Celadon green" is a color name for a shade of green. Celadon is particularly popular in Asia, as it is used to obtain the color of jade, a sacred stone in Chinese culture. The name celadon is now almost always associated with porcelain, usually Chinese. In French, the origin of the word comes from the novel by Honoré d'Urfé, L'Astrée (17th century), where one of the characters, Celadon, a shepherd, wears green ribbons