Pair Tall Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of Large Italian Neoclassical style carved column form alabaster table lamps, featuring elegant fluted shafts and square stepped bases. Beautifully carved and executed throughou...
Alabaster, Brass
Large Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of large scale finely crafted hand carved neoclassical style column form alabaster lamps on brass bases. Expertly crafted with intricate carving throughout. Newly wired with new...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair of Classical Alabaster Column Lamps
By Gio Ponti
Located in Vancouver, BC
An unusual pair of tall carved white alabaster table lamps each one carved as a temple ruin having three fluted columns with bases and stylized ionic capitals; the columns sit on a r...
Alabaster
Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of neoclassical style carved column form alabaster table lamps. Newly wired with new brass 3 way sockets and rayon cords. Measures: height to top of alabaster is 18" x 5" wide...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Neoclassic Column Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Attractive pair of hand carved neoclassic style twisted column theme alabaster lamps. Newly wired with 3 way sockets and silver cords. .
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of neoclassical style carved column form alabaster table lamps. Newly wired with new brass 3 way sockets and rayon cords. Shades are not included. Measures: Height to top of al...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of finely crafted hand carved neoclassical style column form alabaster lamps. Newly wired with new brass 3 way sockets and rayon cords. Shades are not included. Measures: Height...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair of Alabster Greek Column Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Solid alabaster lamps in the form of Greek ionic columns.
Alabaster
Pair Neoclassic Bronze Column Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of large hand carved French neoclassic style "column" form alabaster lamps with bronze and brass mounted fittings. The tint of the alabaster is light tan/pale honey tone. Newly ...
Alabaster, Brass, Bronze
Pair Italian Neoclassic Column Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of hand carved neoclassic style twisted column theme alabaster lamps. The alabaster has yellow and brown highlights throughout see close ups. Newly wired with 3 way brass socket...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of finely crafted hand carved neoclassical style column form alabaster lamps. Expertly crafted with combination white and green elements. Newly wired with new brass 3 way socket...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Diminutive Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of smaller scale Italian hand carved neoclassical style column form alabaster table lamps. Height to top of alabaster socket is 15" x 4" widest at base. Alabaster portion 10", t...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Diminutive Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of smaller scale Italian hand carved neoclassical style column form alabaster table lamps. Newly wired with new brass 3 way sockets and rayon cords. Measures: Height to top of...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of neoclassical style carved column form alabaster table lamps. Lots of nice natural viewing throughout. Newly wired with new brass 3 way sockets and cords. Measures: height to...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Column Neoclassic Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of neoclassical style carved column form alabaster table lamps. Lots of nice natural viewing throughout. Newly wired with new brass 3 way sockets and rayon cords. Measures: hei...
Alabaster, Brass
Pair Italian Neoclassic Column Alabaster Table Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of hand carved neoclassic style twisted column theme alabaster lamps from the 1930s. Newly wired with 3 way brass sockets and rayon covered corded cords. Shades not included. .
Alabaster, Brass
$2,052 / item
H 40 in W 30 in D 0.03 in
"Vigne Fleurie" Signed Limited Edition Art Print by Christiane Lemieux - 30"x40"
Located in New York, NY
"Vigne Fleurie" is an exquisite limited edition fine art print that offers a modernist interpretation of a flowering vine set against a lush green colorfield. Each print is a view of...
Paper
Chic 'Méandre' Gilt Bronze Side Chair by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Undulating 'Méandre' gilt bronze finish side chair by Design Frères. Gilt bronze finish over steel frame. Natural linen upholstered cushion with contrasting piping. Chic and unders...
Steel
$4,400Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 25 in W 10 in D 5.5 in
Carved White Alabaster Lamps Modelled After Roman Temple Ruins
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of carved alabaster lamps representing ancient ‘Roman’ architecture; each having three tall fluted columns with Corinthian capitals supporting a stepped top and resting on a r...
Alabaster
Chippendale Breakfront Bookcase Cabinet Mahogany 1900
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Impressive mahogany Chippendale style 4 door breakfront bookcase. Circa 1900 This quality 4 door bookcase stands upon a squat cabriole legs with boldly carved ball and claw feet. The...
Mahogany
$5,930 / item
H 18.5 in Dm 16.5 in
Konekt Thing 4 Stool with Antique Brass, Horse Hair and Merino Wool Velvet
By Konekt
Located in New York, NY
Konekt's signature Thing Stools are available in four different styles. Refined yet wild, the stools are accentuated with a distinctive combination of contrasting materials. The Th...
Brass
$1,750 / item
H 26 in W 16 in D 16 in
FIN Shade Ceramic Table Lamp, Hand Built, Green Satin Glaze, by Kalin Asenov
By Kalin Asenov
Located in Savannah, GA
FIN _November Green Please note that this listing includes the table base, light bulbs and finial. It is wired for use in the US. If you would like a linen shade as shown in the imag...
Ceramic
Antique English Regency Mahogany Secretary Bookcase, Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Regency Mahogany Secretary bookcase, Circa 1890.
Glass, Mahogany
$2,184Sale Price|25% Off
H 29.53 in Dm 13.78 in
Pair of Neoclassical Style Faux-Bois Metal and Brass Table Lamps
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This nice and simple pair of neoclassical style table lamps is made of faux-bois metal and brass. This is a French work. Circa 1940
Metal, Brass
Round Mahogany Georgian Style Pedestal Dining Table by Leighton Hall
By Leighton Hall Furniture
Located in Suwanee, GA
This is made-to-order round traditional mahogany dining table made in the Leighton Hall shop. It features field of radial cut West African swirly crotch mahogany and a border of sati...
Mahogany, Satinwood
Pair of Antique French Ceramic and Gilt Metal Table Lamps
Located in London, GB
A stunning pair of antique French ceramic and gilt metal table lamps. They were made in France, they date from around the 1950’s. They are of superb quality and are an impressive si...
Metal
$9,500
H 30.25 in W 37.5 in D 19.25 in
Restored Swedish Gustavian Commodes, Painted Pinewood, Circa 1920-1940
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautifully restored pair of early to mid-20th Century Swedish Gustavian commodes, meticulously hand-crafted in painted Pinewood. These refined Scandinavian chests are characterist...
Pine
Pair of Carved Alabaster Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of circa 1920's Italian carved alabaster table lamps with foliage motif on body and with pedestal base. Measurements: Height of body: 19" Height to shade rest: 29" Base: 5.25" ...
Alabaster
$4,500
H 26 in W 32 in D 15.75 in
French Neoclassical Style Curule Stool, Gilded Wood and Upholstered Seat
Located in Atlanta, GA
With its sweeping curule base and refined ornamentation, this French Neoclassical-style stool echoes the grandeur of ancient Rome, reinterpreted through a midcentury lens. Designed w...
Fabric, Linen, Upholstery, Wood
Twisted Column Alabaster Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Italian circa 1940s carved alabaster table lamps with twisted column design and pedestal base. Measurements: Height of body 21".
Alabaster
$34,649
H 70.87 in W 73.23 in D 88.19 in
Bed Tester Spanish Baroque Carved Dark Green & Gilded Leather Superking 6ft180cm
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare, Spanish Demi-Tester, Baroque Bed With Carved, Green Painted & Gilded Posts 181cm, 6ft High, Floral Painted Leather Headboard, sold with custom made box spring mattress base, ac...
Giltwood, Paint
$2,400 / set
H 32 in W 14.75 in D 10.25 in
Pair Art Deco Hand-Carved Alabaster Urn Shape Table Lamps Brass Double Sockets
Located in Miami, FL
A pair of Urn shaped table lamps in beige color Alabaster with light brown veins. All Art Deco Period, hand carved, US rewiring and made in Italy circa 1930-1940s. The lamp holde...
Alabaster, Metal, Brass
There is rare surviving furniture from ancient Greece, yet this classical style has informed design for centuries. Interiors of houses in antiquity were minimal, with much of a room’s color coming from frescoes on the walls and mosaics on the floors. Classical Greek furniture was sparing but finely crafted and influenced by Egyptian furniture design through Mediterranean trade.
Furnishings of the period were usually made from local wood like cypress, cedar, oak and willow from ancient Greece’s plentiful forests, although some pieces were carved from marble, such as a 300–200 B.C. throne with lion legs and a curved back now at the Getty Villa. Comfort and clean lines characterized designs during the Classical era, the symmetry and thoughtful proportions reflecting the architecture of Greek temples.
Some pieces of ancient Greek furniture were simple, rectangular platforms like the klinē, a multipurpose ancestor of today’s couches or daybeds that held cushions stuffed with wool, dry grass or down. These structures were used for both sleeping and dining, which wealthy Greeks did while reclining. At night, oil lamps illuminated rooms that frequently surrounded a garden courtyard.
Most of what scholars have learned about Greek furniture design owes to its representations in art like vases and stelae. The portable diphros stool, with its backless design and four turned legs, was one of the more common types of seating in daily Greek life — it appears as such for the gods on the Parthenon frieze. Stools without backs have been found in early Roman tombs, while benches were also common Greek seating furniture created for use in theaters. In houses of the Hellenistic period, benches seemingly functioned as tables, too.
Some designs evolved through adaptations by the Romans, including the klismos chair. After prominent archaeological excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, the klismos chair — with its four saber legs and the elegant curves that define its back — was a source of inspiration for aesthetics in eras ranging from 18th-century neoclassicism to 20th-century Art Deco.
Find a collection of Classical Greek decorative objects, wall decorations and building and garden elements on 1stDibs.
Antique table lamps became a category of their own once electricity moved light off the wall and onto furniture. The form split quickly: task-driven designs like the Anglepoise on one side, decorative ceramic and glass on the other.
Styles to Know
Base material shapes the light as much as the shade does: ceramic and glass diffuse a softer glow, while brass and metal read more directional. Layer the look with a mid-century modern floor lamp for ambient light, or set a pair on a mid-century modern nightstand for a bedroom.
How to Choose the Right Vintage Table Lamp
Buying individually rather than as a pair allows more flexibility when mixing eras across a room. For those shopping by name rather than by shape, the history of the Anglepoise lamp is worth a read. Each piece comes from a vetted 1stDibs seller, with era, designer and condition detailed, and the 1stDibs Promise stands behind every purchase.