Pair of Medieval Style Jeweled Lamps, France, circa 1930s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Fabulous and whimsical pair of lamps with three lights each. They are made of beechwood, painted gold, with geometric patterning, and are decorated with coloured cut-glass cabochons....
Glass, Beech
Showy Nickel and Jeweled Student Desk Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is one of the more ornate student desk lamps we have offered. It highly ornate with decorative stamping and 16 cut glass multi color jewels. Also the bright nickel plating sets ...
Nickel
Art Nouveau Brass Table Lamp with Jeweled Glass Shade, Hungary
Located in Queens, NY
Art Nouveau (Hungarian) brass table lamp with a multicolored glass jewel encrusted shade with 3 supports on a filigree base.
Brass
Fine Quality Pair of Gilt Bronze Mounted Jeweled Porcelain Four-Light Candelab
Located in New York, NY
Fine quality pair of hand-painted gilt bronze mounted porcelain with figural scenes and jeweled enameled edging and fired gold accents. The Bacchus masks and handles along the side. ...
Bronze
Antique Middle Eastern style Jeweled Brass Lantern / Chandelier / Hanging Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique (early 20th century) bronze and metal lantern form chandelier in the Middle Eastern style with hexagonal shape, dome shaped top inset with faceted blue and amber glass jewels...
Brass, Metal
Antique Tiffany Studios Jeweled Favrile Glass Candle Lamp, Patinated Bronze Base
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Tarry Town, NY
This example represents an important period in Tiffany Studios’ lighting production, when Louis Comfort Tiffany pioneered the integration of hand-blown Favrile glass with sculptural ...
Bronze
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Jeweled Brass Table Lamp
Located in Pasadena, CA
Polished brass Art Nouveau table lamp with faceted jewels encircling the shade. Beautiful polished brass with repeating wreath and garland pattern.
Unavailable
H 17 in W 12.5 in D 10.5 in
Art Nouveau Austrian Jeweled Chunk Glass Table Lamp with Dolphin Motif
Located in Chicago, IL
Lighting from both the base as well as the shade, this is an unusual and beautiful lamp. Highlighting the chunk glass elements two glass eyed dolphins support the shade.
Lead
Art Nouveau Jeweled Lamp
Located in Petaluma, CA
This very organic and whimsical little art nouveau lamp has a beautiful warm gold finish and five exotic chunk jewels. This is a very delicate and well made lamp. Shade diameter is...
Ormolu
Art Nouveau Jeweled Lamp
Located in Petaluma, CA
This graceful little lamp offers a nice example of the art nouveau period. The attractive young gal is holding two original brass shades with faceted jewels and original glass beadi...
Metal, Brass
Sold
H 19 in W 10 in D 15 in
Art Nouveau Austrian Jeweled Lamp with Green Man Light Up Base, circa 1900
Located in Petaluma, CA
We have sold many of these Austrian jeweled lamps and we are always on the lookout for good ones.
Marble, Bronze
Art Nouveau Brass and Jeweled Lamp
By Bradley & Hubbard
Located in Petaluma, CA
This colorful and exotic lamp is very decorative and collectible. The colorful jewels and applied flowers make this a very special lamp. We've seen this style before with these flowe...
Brass
Austrian Seccessionist Jeweled Table Lamp
Located in Petaluma, CA
This style of lighting has always been a personal favorite here in our shop. This is a wonderful example of this style. The beautiful jewels in the shade and the unique glass inser...
Marble, Bronze
Tiffany Studios Jeweled Feather Table Lamp.
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
The gold, yellow and green colors pop in this lamp and the jewels are a special treat. This jeweled feather wont last long.
Bronze
Tiffany Studios Jeweled Turtle Back Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios jeweled turtleback desk lamp, Circa 1900 A Tiffany Studios bronze table lamp base decorated with jeweled green favrile swirl glass balls supporting the turtleback sha...
Bronze
Leaded Glass Arts & Crafts Lamp with Jeweled Shade
Located in Milford, NH
This Arts & Crafts lamp with leaded glass shade has subtle greens and yellows, highlighted with a jewels around the outer edge. Originally a gas lamp converted to electric. Stamped o...
Bronze
Monumental Austrian Gilt Bronze and Jeweled Table Lamp
Located in Petaluma, CA
We have been buying Austrian lighting for decades. We have never seen anything quite like this impressive and exotic table lamp. Rich original gilt finish, colorful jewels and slag g...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Tulip Ball" Desk Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Tulip Ball" desk lamp with favrile glass shade and patinated bronze base.
Bronze
19th Century Rose Quartz Carved Figure Lamp with Jeweled Base
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Rose quartz Goddess with flower basket figure, 19th Century Chinese. Mounted on a hardwood stand with a further metal stand inlaid with 2 jadeite and 1 agate roundel. Mounted as a ...
Rose Quartz
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H 19.5 in W 23 in D 8.5 in
Art Nouveau Austrian Bronzed Metal & Chunk Jeweled Glass Table Lamp, c1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
An Art Nouveau Austrian table lamp offers bronzed cast metal urn form base with double s-scroll arms terminating in light shades having chunk jeweled glass insets, wired for US elect...
Metal
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H 22.75 in W 17.25 in D 17.25 in
Antique Arts & Crafts Floral Jeweled & Leaded Slag Glass Table Lamp, Circa 1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Arts and Crafts table lamp offers leaded slag and jeweled glass shade with floral and scalloped rim over double socket cast base, c1920.
Slag Glass
Sold
H 24 in Dm 20 in
Tiffany Favrille Glass & Bronze Jeweled Dragonfly Table Lamp on Gilt Bronze Base
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Tiffany Favrile glass and bronze 'Jeweled Dragonfly' table lamp on a gilt bronze base, 1899-1920.
Antique Arts & Crafts Ebonized & Chunk Jeweled Lantern C1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Arts & Crafts Ebonized & Chunk Jeweled Lantern Form Table Lamp C1920. 16 3/4" x 6" x 6".
Metal
Jeweled Drop Head Dragonfly by Tiffany Studios, Stamped, circa 1910
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios (1899-1920) "A Jeweled Drop Head Dragonfly" Leaded glass and bronze table lamp circa 1910 26in. (66cm) high, 22in. (56cm) diameter of shade shade stamped TIFFANY...
Pair of Antique French Paris Porcelain Vases or Lamps with Maroon Bases
Located in Long Island City, NY, NY
Pair of French Paris porcelain vases with maroon bases, 19th century, can be converted to lamps. Jeweled decoration and gilt details.
Porcelain
Sold
H 52.75 in W 16 in D 16 in
Bradley & Hubbard or Charles Parker Aesthetic Figural Etched Glass Pendant Light
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Bradley & Hubbard or Charles Parker (attributed) Aesthetic Figural Etched Glass Panel & Jeweled Brass Pendant Lamp C1880 Measures - 52 3/4" x 16" x 16" An exquisite example ...
Glass
Arts & Crafts Jeweled Lamp
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An early 20th century small accent light, brass with red glass lozenge shaped jewels set into the shade. Glass beaded fringe. Lamp measures 12.5" high, 9" wide and 5.25" deep. The ba...
Brass
Jugendstil Jeweled Table Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
Jugendstil was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until a...
Bronze
1800s Jeweled Student Desk Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
Large ornate Jeweled Victorian Brass Student lamp with 13 cut glass stones and decorative cutouts plus clear glass chimney.
Copper
Art Nouveau Jeweled Snake Lamp
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An early 20th century solid brass lamp with a coiled snake or serpent holding the shade. Shade is set with large amber nuggets of glass. Measurements are 20.5" high, 15" wide and 11"...
Brass
Tiffany Studios Jeweled Blossom Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios, New York, 'Jeweled Blossom' table light, c. 1907 Height: 21.5 Inches (55 cm) Diameter: 16 inches (40.2 cm) Leaded opal glass with some white cabochons, mainly in g...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios Jeweled Colonial Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Colonial" Table Lamp Circa 1910 Leaded glass, patinated bronze Shade impressed "Tiffany Studios, New York, 1593" Base impressed "Tiffany Studios, Ne...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios Jeweled Drophead Dragonfly Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios Leaded Glass and Gilt Bronze Jeweled Drophead Dragonfly Table Lamp, circa 1910.
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Geometric" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Geometric" leaded glass and bronze table lamp features an enticing shade, comprised primarily of gradient-hued green glass in a geometric arran...
Bronze
Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.
After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons.
Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.
Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.
Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.
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