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Small night light forming a perfume burner signed Robj* Paris in glass paste and hammered bronze base, from the Art Deco period of the 20th century.
This night light is in good condition and works. Signed (see photos on the base and on the glass).
Please note: micro-scratches and slight wear from time, see photos.
The house existed since 1908, when entrepreneur Jean Born gave it a name in the form of an anagram, based on the letters of his own surname. At that time, he offered electric lighters, perfume burners, and various trinkets. The business ran smoothly, without any hitches or particular success. It was under the direction of Lucien Willemetz, a shareholder who took over the business in 1922 following the founder's accidental death, that the Robj house took off. At the 1925 Decorative Arts Exhibition, the company, rich in new imagination, emerged from anonymity and won a bronze medal. Most of the business was devoted to the production of humorous and utilitarian trinkets, which borrowed colorful forms inspired by Cubism, often anthropomorphic. In 1928, Willemetz had the idea for these curious liqueur bottles that combined charm and humor with a stylization totally in tune with the times, and which collectors still fight over today. The burlesque creativity of these pieces combined with the function for which they were intended contributed to an immediate success. A Burgundian woman for crème de cassis, a magistrate for marc de champagne, a traveler for gin, but also five corpulent figures for the five pieces of a set of pots de crème, or heads in the shape of pears, apples or cherries as jam jar lids... the imagination dominates, and pleases.
