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Red Tole Tall Lamp with Parchment shade browse these categories for related items... All Items: Lighting: Tabletop: Pre 1920: item #944950
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| Decorative Tall Red Tole Lamp with a handmade parchment shade, H:31" excluding the finial, Shade H:12" Shade Diameter bottom:18" Shade Diameter top:8". Tole ware is any object of the style of japanned (varnished) tinplate and pewter. The term is derived from the French name for such objects, tôle peinte also meaning lacquered or enamelled metal-ware, often gilded. The tinplate sheets of iron or steel dipped in molten tin or pewter (an alloy of tin and copper) were worked into a variety of domestic and decorative items, such as teapots, trays, urns, and candlesticks. The objects then were japanned with a varnish that differed from area to area but was generally based on a mixture of linseed oil, driers, and colours. The trade began in the Orient and in Europe the first half of the 18th century, a little later in the United States, and had all but ceased by the end of the 19th century. In this process of gilding was from the period of 1790's to 1870's. It was in the traditional tole, oil paint was the medium used, where two or more colors were used on the brush to complete each element of the design, painted wet on wet with one stoke, such as referred to as 'one stroke painting'. All of these elements were then built up to complete the design, such as in this lamp a very classical genre motif and great color with a decorative parchment shade. | ||||||||
