A pair of good quality cast brass wall lights stamped M.H. for Henri Mouynet with original strongly yellow and blue coloured “pate-de-verre” lampshade, acid-stencilled mark “Noverdy,  France”. France c1930.

Ht.30cm/12in, W.10/4, Dpth.15/6

Henri Mouynet, Paris 1926-1937

•  Henri Mouynet was a producer of bronze and forged iron lighting fixtures during the interbellum.

• His lamps were mainly in a neo-classical style but he also produced lighting in a more modern Art Deco style.

• In 1926 he built a huge building at 11 rue Etienne Marcel prolongée (taday named Roger Verlomme street).

• The Business was forced into liquidation and sold to H.Markhbeinn  in 1937.

• The moulded-pressed glass signed H.Mouynet were produced by the well known glass maker’s of Degué and Schneider.

Jean Noverdy, Dijon