A very decorative pair of etched mirror-backed wall lights, each with glass twin-arm sconces. Superb hand-crafted quality, rare large size, striking accent pieces. Signed 'Jansen' under the plates.
Circa 1920–40.
 
Why we like them
With their superb, hand-made quality and time-softened, 'patrician' look, these wall lights are fabulously chic objects for contemporary and eclectic interiors alike.
 
Maison Jansen was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen. Not originally equipped with its own workrooms for producing furniture the firm began by relying upon antiques and the furniture contracted to outside cabinetmakers. By the early 1890s Maison Jansen had established its own manufacturing capacity producing furniture of contemporary design, as well as reproductions, primarily in the Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Directoire, and Empire styles. The firm's most published work was a project by Boudin and Paul Manno, the head of Jansen's New York office, for the U.S. White House during the administration of John F. Kennedy.
 
Drilled for electricity. May be electrified or used with candles as desired.