A pair of good quality gilt-brass wall lights stamped M.H. for Henri Mouynet in Rococco styling with very attractive cameo-glass lampshades designed with mountain forest scene at sunset by Muller Freres, Luneville. France c.1930

Ht.(backplate)29/11.5, W.2/5, Dpth.16/6.5

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.