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After Victor Rousseau (Belgian, 1865-1954)
Souffleur de Verra - \"Glassblower Sculpture\" lamp
Patinated bronze Spelter
16-3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Signed to base
Inscribed plaque to base
Foundry mark to base
18” H (including 1\" base) x 9\" W x 6\" D
ROUSSEAU (1865-1954) was known for his figural bronze castings which were often adapted to lamps using his forms in the Art Deco era and well into the 1930s, like this one.
A fine French Glassblower Statue with lighted fire. Casted from an original Victor Rousseau sculpture. Rousseau came from a family of stonemasons and began carving at an early age. He studied with Georges Hanstout and then at the Académie Royale des Beaux-arts, Brussels. Between 1890-4 he traveled in Britain, France and Italy. Over the course of a long career he produced many public monuments and statues, also collaborating with a number of architects including Victor Horta.
The glassblower lamp with raised painted wood base is a sculpture figure of a village glassblower - the original blowpipe is gone and has been replaced with copper tubing and a glass marble to simulate the glassblowing activity of the original sculpture. The original tube lightbult has been replaced and painted red to simulate a fire in the stove.
Condition: No losses, age appropriate wear to finish. We replaced the original lightbulb and the statue does light up. But it needs to be rewired, there is a piece of red glass that fits over the fire pit/coal box that glows red.
***. looks to be original wiring *** electrical wiring is in poor condition.Circa 1930s
Great musculature to the glassblower. A most appealing lamp, looks like bronze but is spelter.A rarely found statue - in quite a remarkable state of preservation.
A fantastic find with or without the rewiring.
