French Primitive Forged Iron Swing Arm Standard Lamp
Located in London, GB
A large French swing arm standard lamp. We believe the lamp is mid 19th century and converted to electricity in the 1960s. Beautifully patinated forged iron. Recently professional...
Wrought Iron
Table Lamp by Patrick Nordstrom, 1924
By Patrick Nordstrom
Located in Long Island City, NY
Patrick Nordström, table lamp, ceramic. A table lamp by Patrick Nordstrom (1870-1929), Sweden. Ceramics with brown glaze. Marked: 'NP ISLE 1924.' Made in his own workshop in Islev. ...
Earthenware
Vienna Sesession Wooden Table Lamp
By Dagobert Peche
Located in Vienna, AT
Wooden table lamp in the style of Dagobert Peche made in Austria, circa 1910. Powered with one porcelain E27 socket, new shade.
Hardwood
$687Sale Price|50% Off
Lighting - African ebony table lamp with recessed lights.
Located in Porto, PT
Lighting - African ebony table lamp with inlays. African style in ebony wood with inlays. Dimensions: (Height) 115 cm.
Metal
$2,400 / set
Pair of Faries Table Lamps
By Faries
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A fantastic pair of Faries adjustable table lamps. Heavy brass, hand polished, original ribbed glass shades.
Chinese Export Porcelain Lamp Base
Located in Dallas, TX
A Chinese export porcelain lamp base with French, Louis XVI style bronze doré mountings.
$360Sale Price|71% Off
Vintage White Opaline Table Lamp
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Vintage Opaline white glass and walnut tall table lamp. This striking desk or table lamp has beautifully rounded opaline Charming desk lamp with two white opaline glass centerpieces.
Opaline Glass, Fruitwood
$3,200 / set
Pair of Napoleon III Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Napoleon III lamps. Pair of engine turned period brass lamps previously converted from oil to electric on black bases; newly rewired with black silk cords. France, late 19th ...
Brass
HINDU HEAD BRASS Table Lamp
Located in Hawthorne, CA
Brass & Wood Hindu Head Lamp with Jewel Detail A striking fusion of spiritual artistry and functional design, this singular Hindu head lamp is crafted in brass and wood, featuri...
Brass
Wonderful quality antique Victorian oil lamp
Located in Ipswich, GB
Wonderful quality antique Victorian oil lamp, having a quality antique Victorian oil lamp with a cranberry glass shade with a glass chimney above a hand painted glass reservoir paint...
Brass
Table Lamp with Classical Motifs
Located in London, GB
A polished spelter classical themed table lamp in the form of vase, cast in high relief, mounted on a circular black marble base.
Marble, Spelter
Large French Candelabra Mounted as Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1900's French gilt bronze foliage lamp with urn base. Measurements: Height of body: 34" Height to shade rest: 43" Diameter: 10"
Metal
$3,750 / set
Antique Capitals Made Into Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of 18th century Italian Solomonic gilded columns with fruit and vines carved surround. The columns are circa 1780 and themselves are twenty seven inches long.
Wood
$750Sale Price|21% Off
Stoneware Two Handled Jug Lamp
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good 19th century stoneware two handled jug, now as lamp, having unusual mottled rust and grey pottery surface and excellent form. Shade not included.
Earthenware
Classical 19th Century Bronze Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th century bronze lamp in the Greco-Roman style, having classical figures in the gardens and swan neck handles.
Bronze
An early nineteenth century brass column lamp
Located in London, England
An elegant heavy brass column lamp with gadrooned capital on reeded column into drum pedestal. French, Early Nineteenth Century H 30 x W 10 x D 10
Brass
$1,207Sale Price|30% Off
Brass and Onyx Adjustable Standard Lamp
Located in Cheshire, GB
Late 19th century brass and onyx standard lamp, having turned central column, to the circular onyx shelf. All raised up on three splayed supports. The lamp has been rewired and teste...
Brass
French Art Nouveau Style Floor Lamp
Located in Buchanan, NY
This elegant French Art Nouveau style floor lamp features an elaborate tripod base, adding a touch of sophistication to any room. Offering a timeless and luxurious ambiance, this lam...
Brass, Bronze
W.A.S. Benson Arts & Crafts Table Lamp
Located in Tarporley, GB
#3917 W.A.S. Benson Arts & Crafts table light. English, circa 1910. A beautifully designed antique Arts & Crafts table lamp by the renowned British lighting designer William Arthur...
Brass
Outstanding quality antique Victorian oil lamp
Located in Ipswich, GB
Outstanding quality antique Victorian oil lamp having the original pink glass shade with a wavy shaped top and glass chimney with a double brass burner, lovely cut glass reservoir su...
Brass
Bronze and chunk glass orb lamp
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is an early 20th c spun bronze sphere with colored glass orbs on a pewter base. Possibly Austrian. The most interesting and beautiful lamp.
Bronze
Antique Victorian Gilt Wood Floor Lamp
Located in London, GB
An absolutely stunning antique Victorian gilt wood floor lamp. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1890-1900 period. It is of superb quality with fine and intricate d...
Giltwood
Pottery Vessel Now a Lamp
Located in Stamford, CT
A pottery vessel with interesting shell encrustations converted into a lamp.
Clay, Shell
Monumental Art Deco Silvered Bronze Female Figure Floor Lamp
Located in Nottingham, GB
A spectacular large-scale Art Deco-style figural floor lamp, modelled as an elegant nude female figure dramatically arching backwards while presenting a spherical glass light above h...
Bronze
19th Century French Bouillotte Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 19th century brass candle bouillotte lamp with remnants of silver plate, now converted to electric.
Brass
Fulper Pottery, Rare Vasekraft Table Lamp
By Fulper Pottery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Cream colored flambe glazed stoneware and leaded glass lamp by Fulper. Lamp measures 22" high from base to the top of shade. Stamped manufacturer's mark to underside of shade 'Ful...
Stoneware
Antique Blue and White Porcelain Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A single circa 1920's French porcelain table lamp. Measurements: Height of body: 21" Height to shade rest: 30" Diameter: 8"
Porcelain
Antique Neoclassical Alabaster Urn Table Lamp.
Located in London, GB
This exquisite Antique Neoclassical Alabaster Table Lamp, dating from circa 1920s to 1930s period, is a stunning example of timeless elegance. Its graceful urn-shaped body features ...
Alabaster
$5,800 / set
Pair of Celadon Chinese Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of antique celadon French oil lamps made with Chinese porcelain. Bronze doré bases and bases. Floral and court scenes. Measurements: Height: 22" Diameter: 6"
Bronze
$1,975Sale Price|41% Off
Onyx and Brass Adjustable Standard Lamp
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century brass and onyx standard lamp, having turned central column, to the circular onyx shelf. All raised up on three splayed supports above a circular plate terminating in scr...
Brass
An art deco chrome and glass table lamp
Located in London, England
A rare chrome and glass table lamp with original fitting, a central spherical glass ball to central column with deco highlights. English, 1930s H 23 x W 12.5 (Lampshade excluded)
Chrome
$3,900 / set
Pair Of William IV Gilt Brass Lamps
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very nice quality pair of William IV period gilt brass candelabra, now as lamps, having acanthus and lotus leaf designs, the column form body with foliate cast collars and standing o...
Brass
Georgian Style Mahogany Floor Table Lamp
Located in Germantown, MD
A Georgian Style Mahogany floor Lamp with Tray Table Measures Lamp stands 50" tall, with an 18" in diameter table.
Mahogany
Attractive antique Edwardian quality brass oil lamp
Located in Ipswich, GB
Attractive antique Edwardian quality brass oil lamp, having a quality brass oil lamp with a pretty glass shade with a wavy shaped edge with a peach tone to the top complimenting the ...
Brass
18th century Italian bronze fountain lamp
Located in Alton, GB
Italian bronze lamp, circa 1780. Originally would have been a fountain head. Wonderfully aged patination. Aged brass lamp holder stem. Scrolling acanthus leaf relief detailing sittin...
Bronze
French gothic brass candlestick lamp 19th century
Located in Castle Douglas, GB
A 19th century gothic brass candlestick lamp Hammered brass orb mounted with ruby glass, over knopped stem to trefoil foliate tripod base. Now wired with gold flex, bayonet cap bulb ...
Brass
Marked Handel Table Lamp Base- W7857
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
Marked Handel Table Lamp Base - W7857 We are selling this lamp base for a local estate. It is marked Handel but we think it is a reproduction. The wire has been replaced with period...
Copper
$2,820 / set
Pair of Neoclassical Porcelain Lamps
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in NYC, NY
A pair of 19th century neoclassical porcelain vases with bronze doré mounts converted to lamps, decorated with hand-painted classical motifs in the manner of Sevres porcelain. France...
Porcelain
$11,193 / set
Pair of Late Renaissanace Period Column Lamps
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Pair of large late Renaissance period Italian stone columns converted into floor lamps.
Stone
Vintage Industrial Adjustable Medical Floor Lamp
Located in Oakville, CT
Vintage Model C Medical Floor Lamp by General Electric Corp., Chicago IL Overall Height: 49" - 72" Base Diameter: 11 1/2" Shade Diameter: 9 1/2" Materials: Steel & Cast Iron
Steel, Iron
$1,426Sale Price|36% Off
Brass and Marble Adjustable Standard Lamp
Located in Cheshire, GB
Art Nouveau brass and marble standard lamp, having turned central column, to the circular vined marble shelf. All raised up on three splayed supports terminating in pad feet. The lam...
Brass
Antique Corinthian Column Brass Repousse Table Lamp
Located in Sherborne, Dorset
Lovely brass table lamp base in the shape of a Corinthian column, sitting on a stepped, fluted square plinth and topped with a nicely cast acanthus leaf capital just below the fittin...
Brass
Dutch Delft Polychrome Ribbed 18th Century Table Lamp
Located in London, GB
A fine Dutch Delft polychrome ribbed octagonal section baluster vase. Painted in the Kashmiri palette in tones of blue, iron red and green, profusely decorated with baskets of flower...
Delft
Antique Victorian Ornate Brass Telescopic Standard Lamp, circa 1880
Located in Nottingham, GB
Hinks & Son Brass and Copper Telescopic Standard Lamp, circa 1880–1900 Material: Brass and copper A fine late 19th-century telescopic standard lamp by Hinks & Son, dating f...
Brass, Copper
Antique Bronze Altar Candlestick Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
The lamp base is made from three-sided bronze altar candlestick embellished with religious symbols en relief, as well as classical detailing and claw feet. The shade is for photo pur...
Bronze
Edwardian Brass and Mahogany Floor Standing Reading Lamp
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Edwardian Brass and Mahogany Floor Standing Reading Lamp This charming floor Standing reading lamp is just the perfect height to stand by your chair and illuminate your pages from o...
Mahogany
Austrian Continental Figural Porcelain And Crystal Table Lamp
Located in Tampa, FL
A charming continental figural table lamp, most likely Austrian, dating to circa 1920. The sculptural porcelain composition depicts two figures beneath an elaborate domed shade, crea...
Crystal
$760Sale Price|20% Off
Bronze and Mixed Metal Japanese Lamp
Located in Toledo, OH
Japanese bronze and mixed metal floral design lamp, 1910. Beautifully decorated with flowers and birds. Single turn switch on the base. Shade not included 23 1/2" tall x 6" diameter.
Metal, Bronze
$25,000 / set
Pair of Paul Kiss Lamps
By Paul Kiss
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Pair of hammered wrought iron and alabaster table lamps. Stamped P.KISS/PARIS.
Alabaster, Wrought Iron
French Art Nouveau Bronze Lamp by Georges Leleu
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This circa 1900s Art Nouveau lamp by Georges Leleu is a remarkable survivor. The lamp appears to be all original with silk lining, green glass cabochons and glass beaded fringe. (The...
Metal
Art Nouveau Table Lamp, Original
Located in Praha, CZ
- A very decorative table lamp from the Art Nouveau period - Metal bracket with wooden surround - Beautiful glass shade adjustable in inclination - On / off button on the stand.
Metal
Antique Sandstone Corinthian Table Lamps, Pair, circa 1910
Located in Nottingham, GB
The sculptural sandstone bodies display the classical form and architectural character associated with Corinthian capitals, while antiqued brass fittings complement their aged surfac...
Sandstone
Chinese Wucai Porcelain Vase Table Lamp
Located in Germantown, MD
A Chinese Wucai Porcelain Vase Lamp with ebonized base. Measures 6" in width, 6" in depth and 17" in height to the top of the bulb socket
Brass, Enamel
Antique Floral Cloisonne Vase Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a hand-painted antique Asian floral cloisonné vase transformed into a lamp. The pattern on this piece is extremely intricate and in fabulous condition. Measures: 23" H.
Porcelain
$1,975Sale Price|25% Off
Brutalist Table Lamp, Finland, Early 20th Century
Located in Helsinki, Uusimaa
Brutalist table lamp, manufactured in Finland, Early 20th Century. Forged iron frame with yarn lampshade. Good vintage condition, minor patina consistent with age and use.
Iron
$10,000 / item
Pair of Milk Glass Lamps
Located in Hudson, NY
with bronze and brass hardware. Rewired with new fixtures in 2020. Special Note: For safety, wiring should be checked by an electrician before using.
Brass, Bronze
Floral Porcelain Urn-Form Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Floral porcelain urn-form lamp. Continental porcelain urn-form lamp with hand-painted flowers and gilt decorations on heavy gilt bronze base. Europe, mid 1800's Dimension: 6.5" wide ...
Porcelain
Antique French Glazed Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A richly painted, glazed and parcel gilt gas table lamp, converted to electricity, with gilded mounts. Off-white woven 18" diameter lamp shade.
Metal
$1,646 / set
Pair of Late 19th-Century Chinese Enamel Lamps
Located in London, GB
Pair of Late 19th-Century Chinese Enamel Lamps A decorative pair of converted Chinese lamps, dating from the late 19th century, featuring cylindrical bronze bodies adorned with handc...
Bronze, Enamel
$916Sale Price|38% Off
Jugendst Table Lamp, circa 1908
Located in Wien, Au
Jugendst table lamp, circa 1908 Polished and stove enameled.
Brass
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
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There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
Designer Eva Menz wants the light to "evoke curiosity and a sense of wonder."
Working with resin, a tricky material, has created moments of failure — and enlightenment.
Commissioned for the lakeside villa of a Finnish industrialist, it illuminated visits with dignitaries.
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The 1920s design is a thrilling combination of saturated colors, ancient motifs and modern aesthetics.
Designed by a giant of Swedish lighting, the large-scale fixtures bring major drama.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
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