Art Deco Ceiling Light by Degué

A fine French Art Deco ceiling light by Degué. Each of the four pieces of glass signed ‘Ros’, a mark Degué often used.

Degué was the company formed by David Guéron (1892 – 1950). Following the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, he set up his glassworks in Compiègne, about 50 miles northeast of Paris, to produce tableware and other functional glass. In 1926, the year after the successful Paris Exhibition, Guéron moved into the more lucrative production of French art glass.

He opened Verrerie d’Art Degué in Paris, along with a gallery at 41, avenue de Paris to promote the art glass he named “Degué”. His cameo glass designs leaned heavily toward natural motifs, but also used brilliant colors that became his signature. His internally decorated vases, lamps and lampshades met instant success. Another Degué line used a sandblasting method to decorate monochromatic vessels with graphic devices and designs.

The Degué factory made vases, paperweights, bowls, perfume bottles, stemware items such as liqueur glasses, lightshades, chandeliers, art glass lamps, and half-round ceiling lampshades. These shades were composed of translucent layers of colourless glass internally decorated by swirls of colour. Degué glass was destined for the collections of the few privileged Americans and French able to afford them. These extravagant works were rarely seen outside the homes of such collectors but influenced the taste and fashions of the day through their appearance in exhibitions and magazines of the late 1920s. The glassware made up to 1930 was colourful, whereas the items made after 1930 were frosted and more subdued, in response to the Great Depression.

This ceiling light with heavy moulded, frosted glass with floral decoration and set in a nickel plated frame. The metal frame with foliage decoration.

The glass in good condition and the frame showing signs of light wear to be expected from a light of this period.

Height: 57cm

Diameter of centre: 40cm

Diameter including the three outer glass shades: 62cm

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