verrosaic – Marqueterie et Tiffany

The Peacock Lamp finished

20th October till 20th January and the Peacock lamp is now finished! My photos don’t bring out the full depth of colour, but there you go.

There were a number of difficulties to overcome, the first was the lack of availability of a brass upper ring or its support ring.

As I had already thought about strengthening the lower edge of the Wisteria lamp that is already underway I had purchased several meters of tin coated copper braid from Tressage du Dorlay, 3mm inner diameter, 6mm outer diameter. This was considerably cheaper than the brass ring (2.37€/meter as opposed to 49€) and formed easily around the finished opening after demolding. After soldering in place and coating the surface with solder, this gave a clean round form to the lampshade upper opening.

The 76mm support ring was replaced by a 140mm tin coated ring which I soldered in place on the lamp inner surface at 6 different locations. This too was considerably cheaper ( 7€ instead of 114€).

The Wisteria Lamp

Well, this year’s project is to be the 18¨ Wisteria lamp, here is an example from the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum

This will take a great deal of time and so the first task was to obtain a mold, seen opposite, ordered from Verrosaique, including transport for 278,45 Euros

Celia’s Lamp – Ready to go

Rings and filigrees delivered by Verrosaique ready to assemble and solder, glass from GK Techniques cut to size, ground and the edges copper taped.

So I need to finish cutting Alix’s wings and set up my workshop to accurately place the mold in a different horizontal position for each piece of glass and I’ll be ready to wax the mold.

Projects for 2024 in Tiffany style

At Christmas first of all I gifted my parents the Daffodil lamp from 2022.

Then was asked by daughter number 2 if I could make her a lamp, number1 then threw in a request, I guess fame starts somewhere.

Told them to check out the Sotheby’s web site for ideas (they have sold a lot of originals. Well blow me down with a feather if they didn’t choose the same model, almost (different colour schemes), therefore only one mould to buy

Dragonfly in blue purple for number 2, all is in the colour nuance here, I’ll do this one second.

Dragonfly in more easily distinguished colour variations. So I’ll take on this one first.

But which size lamp to go for? Well I got Celia (number 1), to check out last years 22 inch lamp and we wisely went for a smaller lamp. Better for a smaller room.

For the mould, as for last year I ordered from Verrosaique, and I’m expecting a delivery towards the beginning of June. I’ll need to get in touch with them again to order the jewels and the rings.

This was the lamp size chose, 14 inches, so I will look at how I can work the colours from the larger lamps into this smaller version. Will need to check with Alix (number 2) if this size is ok for her.

Elaborate Peony 18ème semaine

3 tiers terminés

Alors après 18 semaines les 1038 ont été coupés et meulées, les deux premières tiers et la moitié de la dernière tiers ont été sertis.

Après 10 semaines les deux anneaux en bronze ont été livrés, bientôt je commencerai l’assemblage.

Le verre a été acheté chez GK Techniques et les anneaux achetés chez Verrosaic .

Loin aussi loin que tu sois

60 jours pour la pour la livraison: ça vient de loin!

Un peu plus d’un mois après avoir commandé le moule ‘Elaborate Peony’ ça a été livré aujourd’hui…
Blague apart Verrosaic le site web ou j’ai placé ma commande m’avait prévenu que ça pourrait prendre jusqu’à 60 jours!

J’ai placé le moule précédent, Les Jonquilles, à côté pour me rendre compte de la différence en taille.

Je n’ai qu’à faire maintenant.