$3,297
H 19.22 in Dm 0.04 in
Lovely Antique Satsuma Lamp Vase Set with Cranes and Turtles, Japan 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice quality with superb decoration of cranes and turtles. With elephant handles. Both lamps are working! The additions are bronze Condition: Overall condition; Vase 1; res...
Earthenware
A Pair of Antique Japanese Satsuma Vase Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a pair of antique Japanese Satsuma vases converted into electric lamps.
Ceramic, Wood
Pair Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps, Circa 1890-1910
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique Japanese satsuma porcelain lamps, circa 1890-1910.
Porcelain
$4,500 / set
H 27 in Dm 5 in
Pair Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps and Shades, Circa 1890-1900.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique Exquisite Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps and Shades, Circa 1890-1900.
Porcelain
$4,700 / set
H 20.25 in Dm 12 in
Pair Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps with Ormolu Mounts, Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique exceptional quality Japanese Satsuma porcelain lamps with ormolu mounts, circa 1890.
Ormolu
$1,500
H 43.5 in W 11.5 in D 11.5 in
Antique Oriental Oversized Porcelain Satsuma Vase Japanese Table Lamp w/ Geese
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Please message us with your zip code to request a more reasonable domestic U.S. shipping quote. Antique Oriental Oversized Porcelain Satsuma Vase Japanese Table Lamp w/ Geese on Car...
Porcelain
$2,000 / set
H 32 in W 9 in D 8.5 in
Antique Chinese Porcelain Painted Applied Scene Satsuma Vase Table Lamps - Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Chinese Chinoiserie Porcelain Colorful Painted Applied Scene Satsuma Vase Table Lamps - a Pair.
Porcelain
Large c. 19th Century Antique Meiji Period Japanese Kyo Satsuma Vase Lamp
Located in Louisville, KY
This mid 19th century Japanese Meiji Period Kyo Satsuma Vase Lamp is a truly phenomenal piece of art. With multiple scenes that include Japanese figures in ceremonial costumes in var...
Bronze
$1,900
H 16.75 in W 12.5 in D 10.5 in
Antique Japanese Satsuma Moriage Oil Lamps & Dragon Jardiniere Mantel Set
Located in Dayton, OH
Rare antique parlor set of Japanese Satsuma porcelain and brass Kosmos Brenner oil lamps and jardinière / cache pot / planter / urn.
Brass
$1,972 / set
H 17 in W 5.25 in D 5.25 in
Antique Pair Japanese Satsuma Table Lamps Vases Urns Meiji Period 1868-1912
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Pair of large early Meiji period Satsuma heavy gauge earthenware four-sided Japanese Vases, now converted to a Pair of Electric Table Lamps.
Ceramic, Porcelain
Pair of Satsuma Vases, Mounted as Lamps
Located in Woodbury, CT
Decorated with different scenes all around. Antique finish to brass base and cap. Base is 8 inches in diameter. The porcelain alone is 16 inches tall and the squared sides measure 6 ...
Porcelain
Early 20th C. Satsuma Pottery Table Lamp Gilt & Polychrome Immortals Japan
By Satsuma
Located in Miami, FL
Antique Japanese Satsuma pottery table lamp decorated with hand-painted figures of a group of Immortals with He Xiangu holding scroll.
Ceramic, Pottery
Antique Satsuma Ware Japanese Table Lamp
Located in Astoria, NY
A vintage Satsuma-ware pottery lamp. The piece is in good condition with age appropriate wear; some restoration.
Ceramic
Pair of Antique Satsuma Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative pair of Japanese Satsuma vases, having a faux basket weave pattern with bamboo like handles and foliate painted decoration. We can arrange of this pair of vases to ...
Porcelain
Sold
H 15.7 in W 5.9 in D 5.9 in
Pair of Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Table Lamps – Meiji Period Hand-Paint
Located in Lincoln, GB
Pair of Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Table Lamps (c.1880) An exceptional pair of Japanese Satsuma porcelain table lamps, dating from around 1880, originally crafted as oil lamp...
Porcelain
Satsuma Lamp "Scholars"
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique Japanese Satsuma lamp. Gilt and glazed decoration, showing scholars in a landscape.
Ceramic, Pottery
Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamp, circa 1920s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-272 Antique Japanese Satsuma hand painted porcelain vase with embossed gilt detailing electrified into a table lamp.
Brass
Pair of Antique Satsuma Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative pair of Japanese Satsuma vases, having a faux basket weave pattern with bamboo like handles and foliate painted decoration. We can arrange of this pair of vases to...
Porcelain
Oversized Antique Japanese Meiji Satsuma Art Pottery Lamp Base, circa 1900
Located in Big Flats, NY
Oversized antique Japanese Meiji Satsuma art pottery lamp vase features highly ornate neck of honeycomb floral design, body of hand painted enamel white and gold floral.
Brass
Sold
H 35 in Dm 26.25 in
Oversized Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Table Lamp & Embroidered Silk Shade c 1930
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique and large Japanese Satsuma table lamp offers embroidered silk shade over porcelain Satsuma urn having genre scenes and gilt dragon serpent in relief, raised on footed base...
Porcelain, Silk
Pair of Orange Satsuma Lamps
By Satsuma
Located in Canton, MA
Orange Satsuma lamps with blue and green, with a traditional scene.
Brass
Pair of Antique Hand Painted Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
A pair of antique, beautifully hand painted and gilded Japanese Satsuma porcelain lamps of baluster form, with exquisitely rendered peonies, birds, geometric and foliate decoration o...
Wood, Paper, Porcelain
Antique Pair Of Japanese Porcelain Satsuma Hand Painted Moriage Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
20th Century Pair Of antique Japanese hand painted porcelain Satsuma Moriage Crackle lamps on the original brass bases in the style know as Kyoto Satsuma.
Brass
Hand Painted Chinoiserie Scene Porcelain Pair Table Lamp
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand painted and decorated Chinoiserie scene details glazed porcelain pair table lamp. Each lamp features a different motif of monkeys , foliate and floral scene backgrou...
Porcelain, Wood, Paint
$1,884 / set
H 21.66 in W 13.78 in D 11.03 in
A Pair of Late 18th Century Delft Ceramic Table Lamps - De Klaauw Pottery
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A charming pair of late 18th century blue and white ceramic Delft vases, recently mounted as lamps. The vases are beautifully decorated with floral ornaments in the typical Delft st...
Delft
$3,220Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 14.18 in Dm 3.94 in
A Pair of 18th Century Chinese Porcelain Vases as Table Lamps with Gilt Bases
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of late 18th century Chinese export porcelain vases, now mounted as lamps, with polychrome decoration throughout, showing scenes of Chinese figures surrounded by a floral...
Porcelain
$3,600 / set
H 40.5 in W 8.55 in D 7.88 in
Marbro Pair of Large Chinoiserie Urn Table Lamps with Imari Decor
By The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage pair of Chinoiserie porcelain urn table lamps by The Marbro Lamp Company features hand-painted, highly detailed Imari style decor in bright, cheerful yellow color with gold a...
Gold, Brass
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of Chinese 19th century Famille rose vases / lamps. Each with a blue and yellow ground, panels depicting exotic birds and flowers. Gilded ormolu lids and bases in...
Ormolu
English Chinoiserie Tole Tray Table
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very good example of an English Victorian Tole Tray decorated with a Chinoiserie theme. The tray is in overall very good condition with normal indications of use over its 1...
Metal
$3,200 / set
H 29 in W 7 in D 7 in
Pair of Colorful Chinese Export Porcelain Lamps with Green Pleated Shades
Located in New York, NY
A striking pair of mid-20th-century Chinese Export porcelain lamps, richly decorated in the famille-rose palette with scrolling clouds, stylized flowers, and traditional auspicious m...
Porcelain
$1,370 / set
H 32 in W 7.25 in D 7.25 in
Vintage Knob Creek Asian Chinoiserie Porcelain Table Lamps, a Pair
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Lighting Acquisitions Of A Pair of 1970's KNOB CREEK Asian Influenced Porcelain and Wood Quatrefoil Shaped Lamps They have the Kno...
Brass
Pair Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Porcelain Figural Lamps
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Porcelain Figural Lamps. Symbolic Wise Man and Quan Yin / Mother Figure
Porcelain
Pair Japanese Imari Vases / Lamps, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century Japanese Imari facetted vases / lamps, each with classical floral and motif decoration, raised on wonderful French gilded ormolu oriental sty...
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Rose Medallion Ormolu Mounted Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of Chinese Cantonese / rose medallion bellied vases / lamps. Each with wonderful gilded ormolu scrolling foliate mounts top and bottom. Dog of faux gilded porcela...
Porcelain
$3,108Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 25.2 in Dm 13.39 in
Pair of Japanese Large cloisonné enamel Lamps , 19th Century
Located in NICE, FR
Charming pair of cloisonné enamel vases from the Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912), each with a mauve background featuring pretty swallows fluttering among flowering branches and fol...
Bronze
19th Century Chinese Famille Rose lamp.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose export porcelain vase / lamp. Having wonderful scrolling foliate and motif decoration, the inset hand painted panels depict...
Porcelain
Pair Japanese Kutani porcelain lamps, C19th.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality pair of late 19th Century Japanese Kutani porcelain lamps. Each having the classical orange ground with classical scrolling gilded decoration. The inset had painted pa...
Porcelain
$7,852
H 63.78 in W 28.35 in D 7.29 in
Rare & Exquisite Antique 19th Century Chinese Red Lacquer Cabinet on Stand
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite and exceptionally rare 19th century Chinese red lacquer cabinet on stand A good looking and decorative piece, this is circa 1860-18...
Wood
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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