Art Nouveau Ceramic Table Lamp Hand Decorated with Parrots, Denmark, 1930s

Ceramics table lamp made at “L. Hjort”, Denmark in the 1930s. The base is made from stoneware and hand decorated with fruit branches and parrots motif in Art Nouveau style. Original socket mount in patinated brass. Mounted with white flax linen shade. Marked by maker underneath. In the 1850s at the island of Bornholm in Denmark the small terracotta factory “L. Hjort” specialized in producing terracotta earthenware items. The factory had great success internationally, and already by 1880 Hjorth’s articles were sold in the big department stores of Paris, London and Berlin, and as far away as in Australia, New York and Sct. Thomas. The factory also participated in the big World Exhibitions in Altona 1869, London 1870 and 1874 as well as New Orleans 1885. One of Hjorths Fabrik’s biggest successes and Denmark’s first real stoneware series is the grey-brown stoneware. It is available as vases, jars, dishes, stands, tea and coffee sets, lamps, buttons, brooches, door signs and chess sets, etc. The first was decorated with simple Art Nouveau patterns. Later it came with birds, fruits and flowers. The items are unglazed.