A very good and attractive polychrome-enamelled plafonnier suspended with gilt-metal chains. Designed with stylised flower-heads giving a whirlpool effect. Enamelled maker’s mark “Loys Lucha”. France c.1930

Diam,46cm/18in, Ht.(as displayed)58/23

Les Verreries d’Art de Loÿs Lucha , Paris & Nancy

Louis Joseph Chaffard-Luçon (1880–1951).

• Created by Louis Joseph Chaffard-Luçon in Billancourt (Paris) and Nancy the company was active from the 1910’s till the 1930’s.
• The name is a portmanteau: Loÿs for Louis and Lucha from Chaffard-Luçon.
• Loys Lucha was an Art Deco lighting company celebrated for its high end polychrome-enamelled glass plaffoniers.
• Its hand-painted lights have vibrant enamel designs applied to delicate, frosted, or “frozen” glass often with abstract floral and nature motifs..
• In the hierarchy of French Art Deco lighting, Loÿs Lucha is often compared to high-end producers like Leune (headed by Auguste Heiligenstein) or Maxonade.