A pair of delicate art nouveau bed-side table lamps by the famous French designer Charled Ranc and complemented with pretty pate-de-verre lampshades in soft mottled colours of  green and pink by the glass-factory of Verreries Schneider. France c.1920-30

Ht.33cm/13ib, Base: W.18/7,  Dpth.10/4

Charles Ranc, Paris 1909-1939

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Ranc,Frères

• Charles Ranc was a prominent French lighting designer and manufacturer who in 1909 opened his company Bronzes d’éclairage C. Ranc in Paris at 64 rue de la Folie-Mericourt.
• He focused on “bronzes d’éclairage” (lighting bronzes). His work is celebrated for the precision of its finely chiselled metal and elegant proportions.
• The firm later became Ranc Frères in the mid-1930s after his brothers and sister joined the business.
• Ranc had a close and documented exclusive partnership with the Verreries Schneider (Le Verre Français) in the 1920s.
• In the 1930’s Art Deco period their lights were modernised in nickel plated bronze or coppered brass mounts using opalescent shades often (but not exclusively) produced by the Jean Gauthier, Ezanville glass factory (EZAN).

Verreries Schneider (Le verre Français), Epinay-sur-Seine 1913-39

Charles Schneider (1881–1953)

• Charles Schneider was born in Chateau-Thierry, near Paris, on 23rd February 1881.
• His brother, Ernest Schneider (1877-1937), started working for Daum in 1903 as clerk. Charles had started an artistic career and was already active at Daum since 1898.
• In 1913, the brothers decided to start their own business and bought a small glass factory in association with a friend Henri Wolf, at Epinay-sur-Seine.
• In 1918, fire destroyed the studios at Galle and a group of artists went to Schneider’s.
• Early Cameo glass in art Nouveau style is signed “Le Verre Francais” and “Charder” pseudonym for Charles Schneider
• Pate-de-verre and art deco glass is signed simply “Schneider”