Pair Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps, Circa 1890-1910
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique Japanese satsuma porcelain lamps, circa 1890-1910.
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Table Lamps
Porcelain
Pair Antique Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Lamps, Circa 1890-1910
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique Japanese satsuma porcelain lamps, circa 1890-1910.
Porcelain
Ceramic Incised Bulbous Table Lamp with Japanese Swimming Fish Motif Mid-Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A beautiful hand crafted lamp with a pattern of swimming fish in a deeply incised method.
Ceramic
Antique French Red Paris Porcelain Style Urn Form Table Lamp by SGK China, Japan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Red Paris Porcelain Style Urn Form Table Lamp by SGK China, Made in Occupied Japan. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 34.5" H (to finial) x 29" H (to light socke...
Porcelain
Space Age Desk Lamp by Viscount Japan After Lightolier Lytegem
By Lightolier
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a vintage 1960s space age desk lamp manufactured by Viscount in Japan, styled similarly to the Lightolier Lytegem. Features a matte black metal body, a red o...
Metal
Large Pair of 19th Century Japanese Bronze Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive and striking pair of 19th century Japanese (Meiji period 1868-1912) patinated and embossed bronze vases / lamps. Each with inset panels of exotic birds and plants, ...
Bronze
Janetti Father & Sons Japanese Pedestal in Engraved and Painted Bamboo, ca 1880
By Janetti
Located in Roma, IT
Marvelous Japanese pedestal, this delightful object was made in Japan in the late 19th-century and imported into Italy by a famous merchant, Emportio Janetti Padre e Figli. They were...
Brass, Bronze
Pair of Japanese Imari Porcelain and Gilt Brass Table Lamps, early 20th C.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Height to top of base is 11.5 inches
Porcelain
Mid-Century Crackle Glaze Lamp, Original Fittings & Shade, Japan, circa 1950
Located in Chatham, ON
Extraordinary quality and design - Mid-Century Modern - crackle glaze ceramic lamp with original solid oak base/cap/finial and fittings - marked on the ceramic base - Made in Japan -...
Porcelain, Linen, Hardwood
E. W. Godwin. An Anglo-Japanese Oak & Lattice Statue Stand with wide inlaid top
By William Watt
Located in London, GB
E. W. Godwin. Probably made by William Watt. An Anglo-Japanese oak statue or plant stand with wide inlaid top, tiny dovetail joints to the lattice work supports on square legs united...
Oak
Circa 1900-1920 Japanese Vase Mounted as a Lamp
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1900-1920 Japanese vase now mounted as a lamp. Antique cobalt & orange floral reserve porcelain vase made for the Western market, mounted as a lamp in the mid-20th century. Som...
Metal
Japanese Matte Glaze Arts and Crafts Pottery Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Lovely matte glaze Arts and Crafts pottery lamp with Mount Fuji motif. The design is unique all the way around the lamp in colors of pale peach, matte dark gray, green and white. Sig...
Pottery
Antique Japanese Hand-Painted Ceramic Lamp Base, Cloisonné Style
Located in Antwerp, BE
A Japanese hand painted earthenware vase mounted as Lamp. Of fluted ovoid form painted in imitation of cloisonné enamel with panels of figures and animals in a garden within fluted ...
Brass, Bronze
Vintage Tanaka Gooseneck Desk Lamp, Molded Plastic, Japan, 1980s
By Tanaka
Located in Beirut, LB
Vintage Design icon piece by Kyoji Tanaka, the Rabbit Tanaka corp lamp is a super fun desk lamp in function and sold without the bulb. Having an organiser compartment at its base, i...
Plastic
$700Sale Price|20% Off
Rare Japanese Fishing Floating Glass Ball with Iron Frame
By Blenko Glass
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and very rare Japanese fishing blown glass ball with special iron frame, freshly rewired new socket and cord lampshade not included it's 18 inches tall to the top of the so...
Iron
Large Pair of 19th Century Japanese Bronze Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of Meiji period (1868-1912) Japanese bronze vases, each having foliate and floral decoration with birds in relief, gilded ormolu tops and bases.
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of 18th Century Japanese Arita Imari Vases/Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 18th century Japanese Imari vases / lamps. Each with classical pagoda building, exotic flowers and birds, raised on out swepted ormolu bases.
Ormolu
Pair Antique Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th century, Cloisonné Lamps
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique late 19th century Japanese rendered in imitation of Chinese cloisonne
Metal
$3,126Sale Price / set|20% Off
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
Antique Japanese 19th Century Blue And White Glazed Porcelain Vase Lamp C.1880
Located in London, GB
Antique Japanese 19th Century Blue And White Glazed Porcelain Vase Lamp C.1880 A large and handsomely painted Japanese Arita porcelain vase converted to a double-arm table lamp on a...
Brass
A Japanese Porcelain Imari Vase as a Lamp on a Giltwood Base
Located in London, GB
Japan, circa 1900 A late nineteenth century Japanese porcelain Imari vase, the spherical body decorated with flowering branches and the neck with gilt foliate patterns on a red grou...
Ceramic
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
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
Longquan Style Celadon Glazed Ceramic Lamp - Japan - Late 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Extraordinary quality and design - Longquan style celadon glazed ceramic lamp with applied 'foo dog' handles - continuous carved scrolls and leaves within the clay body - original si...
Ceramic
Pair Antique 19th Century Japanese Gold Bronze Urn Lamps, Circa 1890.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique 19th Century Japanese Gold Bronze Urn Lamps, Circa 1890.
Bronze
Antique Pair of Japanese Pink Porcelain Lamps with White Linen Shades
Located in Toronto, ON
This pair of antique Japanese porcelain lamps are extremely rare and valuable not only for their artistry but for their beautiful uncommon pink color. Pottery and porcelain are one o...
Metal
Antique Pair of Japanese Handpainted Pink Porcelain Lamps with Silver Shades
Located in Toronto, ON
This pair of antique Japanese porcelain lamps are extremely rare and valuable not only for their artistry but for their beautiful uncommon pink color. Pottery and porcelain are one o...
Metal
$520Sale Price|20% Off
17th Century Orange Blue White Japanese Arita Ware Charger Plate
Located in Lomita, CA
This Japanese Export porcelain charger is singular and speaks for itself in a beautiful palette of soft orange, blue and white. It is remimiscent of Imari, but the appraisers say it ...
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Lamps on French Gilded Bases
Located in London, GB
A pair of Japanese porcelain antique vase lamps of waisted form. Dressed with French ormolu mount of unusual double gourd form, very finely painted with court officials, samurai, ...
Ormolu
Pair of Antique 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Urns Made Into Lamps
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of antique 19th century Japanese Porcelain urns made into lamps.
Porcelain
$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. Topped with a domed shade showcasing wrought ...
Bronze
Nippon Moriage Urn Lamp with Gilt Highlights, Meiji Style, Japan
Located in Savannah, GA
Nippon urn featuring raised Moriage decoration, gilt highlights, double handles and gorgeous open garden roses hand painted on either side. It has been converted into a table lamp wi...
Pottery
Antique Japanese Imari ginger jar lamp
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
An antique Japanese Imari ginger jar porcelain lamp with lovely hand-painted peacocks, vibrant feathers, and flower blossoms in rich blue-green hues, on ivory-white crackle glazed po...
Ceramic
Liberty & Co in the style of E W Godwin. An Anglo-Japanese two tier plant stand
By Liberty & Co., Edward William Godwin
Located in London, GB
Liberty and Co in the style of E W Godwin. An Anglo-Japanese two tier plant stand with shaped apron below the top. A well designed plant stand of elegant tapering form.
Walnut
Low 19th Century Antique Display Table
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Japanese low table from the 19th century with folding legs. Introduce a touch of elegance to your living space with this exquisite antique Japanese low table from the 19th...
Wood
Ceramic Table Lamp with Cork Shade in Japan Bamboo Look by Leola, 1970s, Germany
By Leola
Located in Nürnberg, Bayern
The lamp comes with E27 Edison screw fit bulb holder. They are with original wiring, in working condition. Size: Lamp base is 10.2" x 10.2" (26cm x 26cm).
Metal
Japanese Mixed Metal Vase Mounted as a Lamp Meiji Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Japanese mixed metal vase Mounted as a lamp Meiji period The bulbous-form body with long conical neck decorated in high-relief copper with a sparrows perched on a branch of va...
Brass, Copper
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
Japanese Showa Ceramic Tea Garden Dining Table and Stools
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Distinctive Japanese Showa period patio and garden stool tea set crafted from glazed ceramic pottery. The set consists of four stools and one round table measuring 24.5 inches in dia...
Ceramic, Pottery
$245Sale Price|30% Off
Early 20th Century Japanese Champleve Cloisonne Enamel Mantel Urn Vase Lamp 30"
Located in Dayton, OH
Japanese champleve cloisonne enameled vase or urn, converted to a lamp mounted to a pierced / reticulated base with c scroll supports. Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 17" / Total Height - 30...
Metal
Japanese Porcelain Lamp, Decorated with Castles and Pagodas, Mid-20th Century
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
This Japanese porcelain lamp, dating from the mid-20th century, subtly blends tradition and aesthetics. With its elegant gourd-shaped form and square base, it is a true testament to...
Porcelain, Wood
$1,800Sale Price|28% Off
Japanese Antique Oak Dining Table, 1930s–1950s - Japandi Wabi-Sabi
Located in Chiba, Chiba
A Japanese antique dining table crafted from oak, dating from the 1930s–1950s.
Wood
A massive Meiji Era (1868-1912) bronze Japanese vase / lamp with eagle motif
Located in Sleepy Hollow, NY
A large and finely cast late 19th-century Japanese bronze vase from the Meiji era (1868–1912), later converted into a lamp. The vase features a dramatic bas-relief scene of a bird o...
Bronze
Japanese Touch-Activated Bamboo Sphere Lamp on Lacquered Base (Late 20th Century
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This sculptural Japanese lamp features a handwoven bamboo shade in the form of a perfect sphere, composed of richly stained bamboo strips intricately interlaced in a traditional bask...
Bamboo, Plastic
Antique Impressive Imari Vase Porcelain Big Tablelamp 19 Century Japan Meiji
By Imari Porcelain
Located in Halle, DE
This really impressive and extraordinary very big Imari Tablelamp was manufactured in Japan in the late 19 Century or maybe earlier. There a many different carefully detailed desi...
Brass
Antique Japanese Awaji Pottery Organic Art Nouveau Gourd Form Lamp
By Awaji Pottery
Located in Wilton, CT
Awaji Pottery lamp in sensual gourd form with green over caramel glaze, circa 1910s. Good quality double cluster S-form socket. 29" high overall, 18" to top of cap, 7 1/2" diameter. ...
Pottery
Large Pair of Japanese Yokohama Porcelain Vases / Lamps, 90cm(35.5”) high
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A large good quality pair of early 20th century Japanese Yokohama vases / lamps, each with flared necks, with pierced petal shaping, white ground, blue boarders with classical motif ...
Porcelain
Large Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Sumo Wrestlers Lamp on Forged Bronze Base
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A heavy, solid-cast Japanese bronze of two sumo wrestlers, finely detailed with taut musculature, expressive faces, and traditional mawashi belts. The figures are mounted as a lamp o...
Bronze
$960Sale Price / item|20% Off
Pair of 19iCentury Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Censers Turned into Lamps
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of baluster form patinated Meiji Period Japanese bronze censers with embossed geometric patterns and flowers all-over and handles of a stylized dragon formed with flowers. Th...
Bronze
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
$600Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Japanese Enameled Porcelain Lamp with Figures c1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Japanese Enameled Porcelain Lamp with Figures & Mule in Garden Setting c1920 Measures - 33 1/2" x 18 1/2" x 18 1/2"
Porcelain
Rare Japanese-style Pedestal / Gueridon in Carved Wood by Gabriel Viardot
By Gabriel Viardot
Located in MOUGINS, FR
Carved wooden pedestal table in the Japanese style, stamped by Gabriel Viardot. Square in shape with a red marble slab, lion paw feet. The spacer and sides of the top are made of ca...
Wood
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Japanese Vase with Black Background in the Style of Chinese Famille Verte
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Japanese Vase with Black Background in the Style of Chinese Famille Verte. Well decorated with woman in a garden. No chips, cracks or repairs, drilled for electricity 21" h to socke...
Porcelain
$2,495 / set
Pair of Japanese Pagoda Form Porcelain Lamps
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A Rare Pair of Japanese Pagoda Form Porcelain Lamps. Beautifully glazed in very vibrant colors with gilt accents. Lamps are mounted on square carved hardwood bases. Wired and in work...
Enamel
Antique 19th Century Japanese Red Enamel Porcelain W/ Gold Urns Made into Lamps
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique 19th century Japanese red enamel porcelain with goldwork urns made into lamps.
Enamel
Vintage Yellow Midcentury Oriental Japanese Ceramic Lamp
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage midcentury oriental ceramic lamp. These are already factory drilled to receive lamp hardware and wiring. Asian Chinese Japanese.
Ceramic
Heals attributed. An Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement three tier ebonized stand
By Heal's
Located in London, GB
Heals attributed. An Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement three tier ebonized stand with fretwork decoration to the top and a raised and turned gallery to each of the lower tiers, with ...
Wood
Rare Pair of Black & Nickel Lightolier Space Age Desk Lamps Made in Japan
By Gerald Thurston, Lightolier
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Made in Japan in the 1980s, these lamps were probably designed by Gerald Thurston, who came up with many succcessful designs for Lightolier. They provide a fun look with their black ...
Metal, Nickel
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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