Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson Solid Brown Oak Table Lamp - 1990s
Price: £ Sold Description: A superb example of a very beautiful carved solid brown oak table lamp base, with trademark mouse, subtle adzing, and brass screw fitting. This particular lamp base is hand carved from 4in thick solid English Brown Oak with influences from a bygone age, fumed with ammonia to give a warm nut brown colour and with a waxed finish. The lamp base has a large very well carved mouse. Dimensions are base 9.2cm square, height 26cm. A factory supplied wiring kit is NOT included, but can be supplied on request.
English Brown Oak is one of the rarest oaks of the world. Brown Oak is English White Oak that turns a deep brown color from a fungal attack that brings about chemical change to the tree. This valuable brown oak owes its russet disolouration to the work of the Beef Steak Fungus. Brown oak comes from a very few English oak trees in which the timber in the trunk of the tree is coloured by a naturally occuring fungus. This does not degrade the wood in any way except to turn the heartwood a rich deep brown colour which goes right through the lamp base. It is apparently impossible to tell whether or not a given tree will contain any of this natural brown oak until it is felled.
This lamp base, which has been made from the unusual and valuable Brown Oak, has taken a beautiful polish and developed a rich, warm patina resulting in the silky smooth feel which is warm to the touch. The dark pigment tiger-striping of the oak makes the lamp base both doubly gorgeous and an exceptionally rare and collectable item.
Mousey Thompson Table Lamp
Solid Brown Oak table lamp base with finely carved angular mouse.
Showing the thicker base of modern table lamps.
Seasoned english brown oak with attractive tiger striped grain pattern.
