PETITOT : LARGE FRENCH 1930 ART DECO CHANDELIER ...... lustre bronze muller era

 H.Petitot

A French 1935 art deco chandelier in nickel plated solid brass or bronze by the famous Paris based company of H.Petitot. The bronze maker Antonin Petitot started his company in 1878. His son Henri Petitot took over in 1917. He wasn't a retailer at first and sold his lights to lamp shops all over France, Europe and the States. In the early days of art deco they produced precious fixtures in high quality bronze with shades by the best French glass factories such as verreries des Hanots Muller freres and Degué. In the mid 30ies they changed their style and produced mainly lights in a modernist look which often had opalescent shades in bluish semi-crystal by the Ezan glass company. The chandelier I present is unsigned. These shades don´t exist with a signature and were designed and exclusively made for Petitot by Pierre d'Avesn who was in the late 30ies the artistic director of the Verreries des Hanots glass manufactory (Holophane,Verlys). I show a picture of a Petitot catalogue representing a flush mount fixture with an identical bowl. Also a very similar model bowl  that is less high does exist and this variation is signed.

The chandelier has a drop of 84 cm (33") and a diameter of 68 cm (26-3/4").  It is in excellent condition. The fixture has been replated and the lamp is newly wired. It holds european E14 candelabra sockets and a standard E27 one for the central bowl. I will rewire it for the US Canada and Japan with US standard and candelabra base sockets.

Free worldwide shipping. The chandelier will be shipped in several parcels with full insurance by priority airmail.

French lamps and wiring

Art deco lamps made in France were equiped with B22 bayonet sockets. For most countries like Europe or the US such sockets are practicaly impossible to use. For instance in the States 110 volt bulbs with B22 fitters are obscure, very hard to find and only one model bulb in very limited wattages is available. In spite of what sellers of unrestored pieces of poor quality claim in their ads when they offer  lamps with bayonet caps sockets : except for the UK and Australia  French chandeliers and lamps need to be rewired for your country. In order to fit Edison large or small screw base bulbs as used in the USA, B22 sockets have to be replaced by American candelabra base or standard/medium size Edison screw-in sockets.  E14 and E27 are modern replacements for European countries.   An additional complication is that the size thread used in early French lighting to connect the sockets to the chandelier mountings or lamp bases is not compatible with the modern size threads used in the USA and Europe. New American or European sockets do not just screw on to the old lamp fixtures.  In order to make it possible to use an original old French chandelier or lamp with modern screw bulb bases, a specialized restorer will have to re-tap the threads.  All my cleaned and restored chandeliers, sconces and lamps come rewired with the correct sockets you will need to use modern bulbs in your country.

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