Elizabeth Eaton Burton SHELL LAMP SHADES ARTS & CRAFTS Start Price USD 200.00 Current Price USD 200.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, August 21, 2008 End Time Sunday, August 31, 2008 Location California See more about 'Elizabeth Eaton Burton SHELL LAMP SHADES ARTS & CRAFTS' Description Elizabeth Eaton Burton SHELL LAMP SHADES ARTS & CRAFTS Click Images to Enlarge 4 sided Shell Lamp Shade, Art & Crafts Era, Hand Crafted, measures 5"h x 4"w, fitted base is 1 3/8" diameterAttributed to Elizabeth Eaton Burton (American born in Paris, 1869 -1937 Santa Barbara)Ms. Elizabeth Eaton Burton's artistic father, Charles Frederick Eaton, moved his family from France to Santa Barbara in 1886. Mr. Eaton established himself in California as an arts and crafts designer and produced handmade books, objects in tooled leather, and metal-wares, such as lamps and teascreens, often using shells. As an arts and crafts aficionado, he used inexpensive and local materials, worked by hand, and created designs characteristic of California regionalism.Ms. Elizabeth Eaton learned to handcraft leather, shape inexpensive metals, and to incorporate shells to create a name for herself as a cherished arts and crafts artist in southern California. Ms. Burton obtained a patent in 1905 for her low relief work in ornamental leather work. Ms. Burton was published in Vogue in 1901, and exhibited in NY. Many of the now-famous men of the arts and crafts movement wrote about Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton Burton's work with great praise, including Gustav Stickley. She created famous screens with complicated figural designs, using pyrography, printing and applique leather. Her metal work, leather work, and overall interior designs even stretched out to home garden designs. Burton was a member of the Boston Arts & Crafts Society.Burton actually published a catalogue showing more than 30 of her "Hand-Wrought Electric Lamps and Sconces", showcasing her original lighting designs for the home. The shells with their natural coloring and opalescent tints, with the hand-wrought metal work for the lighting fixtures, were very popular. Burton combined inexpensive brass and copper metals - either specially patinated, even iridescent coating, or not - with numerous shells in various ways. In many of her smaller table lamps, she used abalone shells to make a look of delicate petals.And so we have here, one shade with 4 abalone petals....strikingly lovely.Condition: Note that the top of two of the shells have been damaged (although the top of one shell is hardly noticibly nicked) - see the pics.Please note that the last picture shows the other lampshade also attributed to Elizabeth Eaton Burton, which is a three-petaled flower of abalone shells. The three-petal shade is up for auction separately. You are bidding in this listing on only the shade with the 4 shell petals. All payments are due within 7 days of end of auction. "Buy it Now" requires immediate payment. Please ask questions before bidding as all sales are final. Affordable Auction Management and Image Hosting Solutions @ inkFrog view my other auctions below:   visit my entire auction showcase Place a Bid!