1940s Mid Century Cordey Porcelain Capodimonte Budoir Pitcher Lamp 21"

Description

Mid to late 20th century porcelain table / budoir lamp by Cordey China Company. Scalloped repousse brass base topped with a lamp in the shape of a white porcelain pitcher, decorated with three dimensional flowers and leaves. Includes harp and faceted cone shaped white Bakelite finial.

"Cordey China was incorporated on October 6, 1942 as a Pennsylvania manufacturing company located at 226 West Columbia Avenue in Philadelphia with three owners shown: Boleslaw Cybis, Harry Greenberg, and Harry Wilson... when the three men decided to form a manufacturing company named Cordey (pronounced cor-DAY), Greenberg and Wilson had already been in business together for at least four years. US Patent Office records show that the two men purchased and recorded two lamp base patents in 1938, using the company name “Arton Studios.” (The company) Decorated porcelain coffee sets and covered dishes, porcelain sculptures, lamps. By the 1950's the company was located in Trenton, NJ. The involvement of Boleslaw Cybis with Cordey China Company ended, of course, with his death in 1957 followed by that of his wife in 1958. Whether his death had anything to do with the late-1950s downward spiral of the company is open to conjecture, (but) notice of bankruptcy sale appeared in April 1959 in the Philadelphia Inquirer and also in the NY Times. The purchaser of the Cordey business and inventory was Norman Schiller who had founded a lighting company, Schiller Brothers, in Jersey City in 1946 along with his brother Harold. On June 24, 1959 a new merged corporation was registered in NJ as Schiller-Cordey Inc. Because he had also purchased the assets of the Arton Studios operation and wanted to keep that plant running as well, he also registered the name Cordey China Company Inc. in Pennsylvania in July 1960. The post-1959 Cordey operation seemingly no longer produced anything except lamps. Norman Schiller sold Schiller-Cordey to Instrument Systems Corp in August 1968. Instrument Systems then merged Schiller-Cordey with another of its subsidiaries, Lightron Corp., in 1969. Instrument Systems eventually changed its name to Griffon Corporation which still exists today although the operations of Schiller/Cordey/Lightron appear to have been phased out during the 1980s." (Source: Cybis Archive / Potteries of Trenton NJ Society)

Condition

Good Overall - Gentle wear/staining

Dimensions

5.5" x 13.5" / Total Height - 21" (Diameter x Height)