ŁOPIEŃSCY BROTHERS, Desk lamp, electric

Gilded bronze, marble; height 30.5 cm, width 24 cm, depth 17.5 cm.
Warsaw, 1920s.
Square base, on 4 winged animal feet; sides with openwork floral motif. The shape of the body is boat-shaped, referring to the form of an ancient olive lamp, on the sides decorated with a palmette motif. On the top - a kneeling figure of a winged goddess filling the lampstand with oil from a jug held in her hands. On the longer axis - a handle formed by coils of a serpentine body; on the back on the base signature: BR. ŁOPIEŃSCY / WARSZAWA.; on the other side - a light bulb in a frame in the form of a horn of plenty, with a shade in the shape of a flame, made of pressed glass - colorless, frosted.