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Posted 10 years ago
ho2cultcha
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I picked up a bunch of old hanging lamps the other day - Victorian, art nouveau and deco pieces. This is one which was missing a fixture, but it is very large and beautiful - about 20" across. i'm not sure what kind of a fixture it had, so i just sat it on this pot stand at the nursery.
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Wonderful Piece. This was most likely flush mounting to the ceiling, maybe in a theater or hotel lobby. The fixture might not have been visible. Regards, Kirk
Thank you Artistinside! did they even have flush mounted lamps back then? i thought that they hung these below the lightbulbs as a hanging lamp. the only flush mounts i found looked like they had been rigged that way in recent years. i think this probably had a large metal ring which was hung on 3-4 chains from a ceiling mount. not sure though...
possibly a gravity hook shade from a pendant fixture. Here's a good site for researching old light fixtures and shades:
http://www.oldhouselights.com/homepage.htm
thank you TallCakes! that is a very useful link. i need to measure the globe, because it does look a LOT like the globe from those gravity hook shades, but they are all 10". sometimes i can be far off on my measurements unless it is right in front of me.
that's estimation of measurements....
yes, many of the shades are 10"-12" but there are also a good number that are 15"-16" as well. Tho' I didn't notice any shade listed that were 20".
I have a house that is 105 years old. Today, a young woman that was helping me clean broke my hanging lamp bowl. It looked just like this one and it hung in the formal high ceiling dinning room. It hung on three clip on wires and the bulbs illuminated it so beautifully. Now I have the hanging part with no globe. I am not sure what to do. My globe was 14" in diameter (guestimate) The home and the globe belonged to my husbands great-great grandparent and has been in the family ever since.
email me when you get the exact measurements. i'll measure it tomorrow.
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Awesome!!
Hiiii, I grew up (1960's onwards) with a light shade similar but more ornate than this. My 84yr old dad told me today, the light shade had been there since HIS childhood....so we're thinking very early 1900s if not late 1800s. I remember the light extremely well; in fact my dad still has it tucked away in his garage. The shade hung from the middle of an extremely ornate ceiling "rose" made of plaster. Three brass chains hung the shade approx. 12"from the ceiling with one of those cords covered in fabric of some sort. There is no inner metal ring to attach the chain...they simply had a hook at the end of each chain that hooked in under the glass lip (if yours has a similar lip). Cheers. I would LOVE to know what these fittings are worth.
thanks Virginia.vintage [where are you?!]!
me too jb64!
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