Contemporary Cloisonné Conical Table Lamp in Azure Design by Robert Kuo
By Robert Kuo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Conical table lamp Azure design Turquoise and blue Cloisonné Hand made Silk shade Limited edition The cloisonné technique is an enameling on metal technique that dates back ...
Enamel
Vintage Chinoiserie Blue Cloisonné Enamel Oriental Brass Satsuma Vase Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie Blue Cloisonné Enamel Oriental Brass Satsuma Vase Table Lamp on Carved Wood Vase with Birds and Flowers.
Brass, Enamel
Coronet Lamp, Tang Grass Design, Cloisonné by Robert Kuo, Handmade, Limited
By Robert Kuo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coronet lamp Tang grass design Cloisonné Glass enamel Handmade Limited edition The cloisonné´ technique is an enamelling on metal technique that dates back to the Byzantine E...
Enamel
Pair of Early 20th Century Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Vases/Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of early 20th century Chinese Cloisonne enamel vases / lamps, each with wonderful bright coloured floral and classical motif decoration and mounted with gilded...
Enamel
Pair of Early 20th Century Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Table Lamps
Located in London, GB
An exceptional pair of early 20th century Chinese Canton enamel vases, each decorated throughout with wonderful flowers and foliage, now mounted as lamps with hand gilded turned base...
Enamel
Antique French Cloisonné Enamel and Ormolu Bronze Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a charming fixture and its cloisonné enamel colors are still quite vivid.
Bronze, Enamel
$1,506Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Cloisonne Lamp, Japanese, Bronze, Table Light, Victorian, Meiji, C.1850
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique cloisonné lamp. A Japanese, bronze urn with light conversion, dating to the Victorian period and later, circa 1850. Delightfully decorative lamp with a fine conv...
Bronze
Baluster Floor Lamp, Moss/Webb Design Cloisonné by Robert Kuo, Limited Edition
By Robert Kuo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Baluster floor lamp Moss/Webb design Cloisonné Handmade Silk shade Limited edition The cloisonné technique is an enameling on metal technique that dates back to the Byzantine...
Enamel
$2,520Sale Price|40% Off
1910 Meiji Period Japanese Cloisonné Lamp with Wrought Iron and Enamel Shade
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This 1910s Meiji Period table lamp features a Japanese cloisonné enamel vase base with vivid traditional motifs and dragon-form handles.
Bronze
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
French Onyx and Cloisonne Table Lamp, Late Victorian, Mid-19th Century
Located in Montreal, QC
This tall lamp is remarkable for its use of onyx and cloisonne. The onyx is from Algeria and the cloisonne is actually French in the style of the Chinese. The lead crystal reservoir ...
Onyx, Enamel
Pair of Antique Japanese Cloisonne Accent or Boudoir Table Lamps
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of unmatched antique lamps are unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Japan and date to approximately 1920 and done in an Anglo-Japanese style. These small accent o...
Brass
Pair of Bronze Mounted Cloisonné Chinoiserie Lamps, French, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Each surmounted by a stork aloft a tortoise and feeding from a snake, the body elaborately decorated with masks, garlands, tassels, and fish against a lattice ground.
Enamel
19th C, Chinese, Champleve Cloisonne Vase Mounted as a Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Charming champleve cloisonné bronze base, enameled table lamp, in very good, original, clean and working condition. The lamp has a vase form body, with unusual and intriguing Chinese...
Bronze, Enamel
$3,897Sale Price / set|40% Off
Arts & Craft Chinese Bronze Cloisonné Enamel Vase Lamp by Mimi London, Pair
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Set of two Chinese Cloisonné bronze table lamps made by Mimi London. Each lamp features 2 standard 120v Sockets. Cloisonné is an enameling technique in the decorative arts, or an ob...
Brass, Bronze
$280Sale Price|30% Off
Japanese Champleve Bronze Cloisonne Enameled Mantel Vase Urn Table Lamp 26"
Located in Dayton, OH
Japanese enameled bronze mantel vase / urn, fitted with a two light pull chain. It features an urn with rings on either side, decorated with animal motifs in multicolored enamel. Ca...
Metal
Pair of Cloisonne Enamel Lamps with Gilt Bronze Mounting, circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of cloisonné enamel Japanese style roll shaped lamps with a gilt bronze mounting. Blue turquoise enamel background with Buddhist swastika and decoration of polychrome flowered c...
Bronze, Enamel
Pair Antique 19c Chinese Gilt Cloisonne Covered Prunus Ginger Jar Table Lamps
Located in Richmond, CA
A matching pair of antique Chinese 19c azure blue ground cloisonne covered ginger jars, on gilt bronze body finely decorated with prunus blossoms in a rocky garden scene, with ruyi h...
Copper, Enamel, Bronze
Late 19th Century Pair O Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Cylindrical Brass Vases Lamps
Located in Germantown, MD
A pair of Chinese Cloisonne enameled cylindrical brass vase lamps. Circa 1890s. Cloisonné enamel finish in good condition. Ebonized wood base. Nice Brass patina; recently polished. M...
Brass, Enamel
Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Bronze Vase 19th Century Mounted as a Table Lamp
Located in Miami, FL
The cloisonné enamel bronze vase is mounted in table lamp. The quality of the piece is very interesting as an object by itself. The shape is unusual. The dimension of the vase is 1...
Bronze
Pair of French 19th Century Neo-Classical Onyx, Ormolu and Cloisonné Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical onyx, ormolu and Cloisonné lamps. Each lamp is raised by fine ormolu topie shaped feet below the square onyx base with an elegant...
Onyx, Ormolu
Pair of Large Gilt Bronze and Cloisonne Urn Table Lamps by 'Champeleve'
By Champeleve
Located in New York, NY
A large pair of gilt bronze and hand-painted and enameled Champeleve lamps. An elegant modern neoclassical urn form is combined with a mottled gilt bronze surface and with enamel inl...
Bronze, Enamel
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble, Ormolu and Cloisonné Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Brocatelle Violette marble, ormolu and Cloisonné lamps. Each lamp is raised by a rectangular base with an ele...
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of 19th C Meiji Bronze Champleve and Cloisonne Enamel Vases Mounted as Lamp
Located in Germantown, MD
A Pair of 19th century Japanese Meiji Bronze Champleve and Cloisonne Enameled Vases Mounted as Lamps. Very rare pair. 8" x 8" x Adjustable height 21" to 24"H.
Bronze
Antique Fench Cloisonne Enamel and Ormolu Bronze Chandelier circa 1860-1870
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a lovely fixture. The cloisonne bowl has been converted into a small chandelier. The enamel coloring remains bright and lustrous.
Bronze, Enamel
Pair French Brass and Cloisonné Pineapple Sconces, Rewired, 1970s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1855 Pair French brass and cloissone single light sconces Rewired
Brass
1960s Japanese Antique Cloisonné Brass and Enamel Wall Sconces Pair
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1776 Pair Brass and enamel cloissone wall sconces with vibrante colored flowers Take on 60 watt candelabra based bulb Additional single sconce available at $ 1350 see 1824
Brass, Enamel
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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