Forest Craft Guild / Grand Rapids School of Applied Arts large table lamp, Grand Rapids MI circa 1907. Attributed to the work taught and crafted by Forest Emerson Mann, founder of the Forest Craft Guild, who prior to its founding was the director of the Grand Rapids School of Applied Arts. In a 1907 article in Home Needlework Magazine, Mann wrote about these copper lamp shades with reticulated designs paired with Ohio pottery bases (see images). This shade has masterful hand cut work in the design of stylized pinecones and needles, six individual panels riveted together with a unique peaked pyramid shape, similar to one illustrated in a FCG ad from 1911. The shade lined in mica rests on three hammered copper arms extending from a hammered copper cap which wraps around the rim of this large mat green base. Single socket with a bakelite turn switch mounted in the copper. The large pot is in excellent condition and mounted from below on a wood riser. A rare & unique period lamp. Measures 23” tall, shade is 16” wide & 10” tall, base is 10” wide in center. SOLD
