At auction, similar lamps have sold in the $300-$500 price range. A dealer specializing in the Art Deco style might ask $600-$900 for such a lamp in excellent condition.

Spelter, an alloy of zinc and copper, was often used for many cast, ornamental Art Deco and Art Nouveau pieces in the late 19th century and early 20th century, "standing in" for cast bronze.

Watch Reid Dunavant appraise an Italian Art Deco alabaster polar bear lamp, ca. 1925, in Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 1. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...

Cold-painting was a technique popular during the Art Deco period, which started in the 1920s. Bronze figures, most of them made in Vienna, were actually covered with enamel paint.

The three pieces he’s created in the series — called Stalaclight-1, Stalaclight-2, and Stalaclight-3 — are all odes to Art Deco design, the architectural period responsible for the earliest ...

Connie Sue Davenport: Appraisals on art deco lamps, glass bowl and oak furniture.

The same thing was true in the 1930s when Chase Brass & Copper Co. decided to make art-deco pieces for the home, along with the buttons, nails and thousands of other brass products it had ...

That fact makes it hard to confirm the attribution, Flannery explained, identifying the material as spelter, a common mix of metals used at the time. He said the piece could be by Causse, but that ...

The Nassau County Museum of Art’s new exhibit, "Deco at 100," opens on Jan. 18, showcasing paintings, furniture, fashion and sculptures that capture the ...

You have to love Art Deco figures for their peek-a- boo daring. Their scandalous physical antics celebrated in spelter, fine bronze and ivory still raise a smile.

There are 40 lots in the lighting category alone, from table lamps, ecclesiastical brass candelabra, to an art deco spelter lamp and a range of ceiling lights: an Irish-cut crystal 16-branch ...

Molly Casey, from Cheswardine, was shopping in Market Drayton when she fell in love with an art nouveau spelter lamp at vintage shop Allsorts on High Street. On her latest visit to the shop a man ...