Montières Art Nouveau Lamp With Iridescent Glaze And Cloisonné Motifs

Montières Art Nouveau lamp with iridescent and cloisonné decoration

A beautiful Art Nouveau lamp from Montières, Amiens,  c1917.
This rare lamp is still rarer because it has its original shade in good condition.
The lamp base is in iridescent faience enamelled with stylised butterflies with metallic highlights.
The shade is in brass and gilt bronze with 3 plaques of purple striped glass.
The mount is decorated with leaves and flowers.
Signed Montières and Montières Amiens in two places.

Height 43cm
Shade width 16cm
In good condition with minor signs of wear. Patinated gilding, old traces of verdigris, a small chip of about 4mm on the lower edge of the lamp: see our close-up. Small imperfections which don't detract from the lamp's Art Nouveau rarity and grace.

Manufacture Montières, Amiens
This fine faience factory took off in 1917 under the artistic direction of Jean Barol (1873-1966). Barol was a former pupil of the famous Vallauris ceramist, Clément Massier, and was one of the great ceramists of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. The Montières works closed in 1933, a victim of the Wall Street Crash in 1929.