1042 - Art Nouveau ceiling lamp, red glass with optic ball pattern, brass mount, pendant light, circa 1900

Art Nouveau ceiling lamp, red glass with optic ball pattern, brass mount, pendant light, circa 1900 Red glass, optic-blown with ball pattern, brass sheet and cast iron, ceiling lamp, also pendant light, Art Nouveau, circa 1900, ovoid glass body, slightly flared at top and bottom, the lower end of relief-decorated brass sheet, a crowning relief-decorated brass ring with holes for attaching the suspension of slender link chains, the upper suspension of the chains of cast iron with floral ornaments, electrified with one light, E 27 socket, condition commensurate with age, piece of glass broken out at the lower edge and glued, brass sheet torn and with a loss at the lower end, D. 23 cm, H. 70 cm, suspension 45 cm With optic-blown glass, the hot glass gather is first blown into an open mould with a patterned inner wall, whose negative decoration then appears as an even pattern on the glass bubble; during subsequent free blowing the pattern becomes distorted. Art Nouveau, named after the magazine "Jugend" published in Munich from 1896, also encompassed glass and wrought iron between about 1880 and 1914 and borrowed its motifs symbolically from nature. The E in the socket designation E 27 stands for Edison, the number for the thread diameter of 27 mm; Thomas Alva Edison had the screw thread patented in 1881.