Sold|$1,950
Large Italian Pottery Lamp
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
Large Italian pottery lamp with walnut base. Colors are great and with the unique walnut base, this lamp makes a statement.
Pottery
Sold|$775
Danish Modern Pottery Lamp
By Upsala Ekeby
Located in New York, NY
Interesting pottery lamp with reticulated stoneware base and muted earth tone glaze.
Pottery
1970s Mid Century California Design Pottery Large Table Lamp Base by Bob Kinzie
By Bob Kinzie
Located in San Diego, CA
Wheel-thrown pottery with decorated pattern. With beautiful earth tones, great condition no chips or cracks. Base only no lampshade. It's 24" tall from the bottom to the top of the s...
Brass
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Art Pottery Lamps on Teak Base
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Pair of Mid-Century Modern art pottery lamps on teak base.
Pair of Ceramic Pottery Lamps with Wood Base and Embellished Details
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Pair of ceramic pottery lamps with wood base and embellished details.
Ceramic, Wood
Sold|$650
Art Pottery Lamp
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#4-424 Art pottery single lamp having a wood base. shade not included
Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Lamp Base by Einar Johansen for Söholm, Denmark
By Soholm Pottery, Einar Johansen
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A fantastic large handmade ceramic stonewear lamp base made by Einar Johansen for Söholm, Denmark.
Ceramic
Vintage Modern Studio Ceramic Art Pottery Large Table Lamp on Lucite Base
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is this vintage studio ceramic table lamp on thick lucite base. Dimensions: 25" diameter x 31" height.
Ceramic
Tiffany Studios "Roman" Table Lamp with Rookwood and Tiffany Base
By Tiffany Studios, Rookwood Pottery Co.
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York "Roman" leaded glass and bronze table lamp. The shade sits atop a Rookwood and Tiffany Studios Lilypad base. The shade, which is in yellows and oranges, is...
Sold|$475
California studio pottery lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
A large studio pottery lamp on walnut base signed "AFFILIATED CRAFTSMAN CALIFORNIA"
Sold|$900
Pair sage green pottery lamps
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Embossed pottery lamps on brass base
Monumental 1930s Royal Arden Hickman Pottery Table Lamps
By Royal Hickman, Russell Potteries Inc. 1
Located in Miami, FL
Measurements: Pottery vase 10" in diameter. Lamp / pottery and base 23" high.
Pottery
Sold|$1,200
Large Bulbous Mid-Century Pottery Lamp
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful large Mid-Century pottery lamp on a wood base. It has been completely re-wired and has new replaced hardware.
Sold|$3,200
Vintage Fornasetti Gilt Pottery Foot Lamp
By Fornasetti
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage gilt pottery lamp gladiator foot base and black paper shade.
Pair of White Hexagon Base Table Lamps
Located in Ferndale, MI
Pair of White Hexagon Base Lamps (Shades not Included)
Pottery
Mid-Century Porcelain Siamese Figure, Pair
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Rare Mid-Century California Pottery lamp base depicting a Siamese figure of a male and female in traditional dress.
Ceramic
Pair of Mid Century Wood and Pottery Lamps by Heifitz
Located in Astoria, NY
Pair of Heifitz pottery lamps with wood base and brass fittings. They have brown parchment 12" shades.
Brass
Sold|$650 / set
Mid Century Pottery and Wood Table Lamps - Set of 2
Located in Fairfield, CA
A pair of matching mid century table lamps. Each lamp features a pottery base and turned wood neck and base.
Pottery, Wood
Over-scale Japanese Style Pottery Table Lamps
Located in Ferndale, MI
Over-scale Japanese Style Pottery Table Lamps. Base: 20" diameter x 21" tall, overall 38" tall
Sold|$1,200 / set
Arne Bang Styled Danish Pottery Table Lamps
By Arne Bang
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A pair of burnt orange / rust toned pottery table lamps with teak wood base plate and stem topped with the original linen shades, made in Denmark .
Sold|$3,400 / set
1950s Large Modern Gold Table Lamps Attributed to Marbro
By The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in New York, NY
Stunning pair of large 1950s pottery gold table lamps with wood base and antique finish brass hardware, newly rewired and ready to use.
Brass
Huge Mid Century Italian Drip Glaze Pottery Lamp
Located in Houston, TX
Unique Italian Mid-Century drip glaze pottery lamp on wood base, Newly wired for U.S. market Measures: 17 inch diameter.
A Red Flambe Mei Ping Vase as a Table Lamp with Giltwood Base
Located in London, GB
China, circa 1890 A late nineteenth century Mei Ping vase with flambe glaze, of bottle neck form, now as a lamp. Please note: Lampshade not included. Photographed with 16” diame...
Pottery
Vintage Haeger Mid Century Italian Modern Blue Glazed Ceramic Pottery Table Lamp
By Haeger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Haeger Mid Century Modern Italian Style Blue Etruscan Glazed Ceramic Pottery Table Lamp on Painted Wood Base. Circa Mid 20th Century.
Ceramic
A Pair of Lamps on Walnut Base by Gordon and Jane Martz
Located in Ferndale, MI
A Pair of Argent/Black Pottery Lamps on Walnut Base by Gordon and Jane Martz.
Sold|$525
Mid Century Martz Lamp
By Gordon Martz
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A Mid Century Gordon Martz Pottery based table lamp with original finial and lamp shade, incised signature by designer to back of base.
Pottery, Wood
Sold|$695
Vintage Celadon Lamp
Located in Norwalk, CT
A fine piece or oriental celadon pottery as lamp base with quality lamp conversion.
Metal
Sold|$795
Tall Mid Century Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Tall Mid Century Lamp. Glazed pottery on wood base. Rewired.
Wood
Sold|$2,400
Flambe Glazed Art Deco Lamp
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Love the skyscraper quality to this Art Deco lamp. The stacked forms with the drippy flambe glaze over heavy duty pottery stoneware pottery base makes this lamp Stand apart from othe...
Stoneware, Walnut
Sold|$1,295
Petite Ceramic Painted Flower Lamps
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Great pair of small scale ceramic pottery lamps. Three sided ceramic base with light blue flower painted on dark green background.
Ceramic
Sold|$1,195
20th Century German Ceramic Table Lamp
Located in High Point, NC
This charming 20th-century German ceramic table lamp combines the organic appeal of pottery with functional design.
Ceramic
Pair of Crackle Glaze Salmon Tone Table Lamps
Located in Ferndale, MI
Pair of Crackle Glaze Salmon Tone Table Lamps. Pottery base: 20.5" tall x 6.5" diameter
Sold|$1,450
Painted Terracotta PotteryLamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wonderfully shaped terra-cotta pottery vase made into a lamp base.
Rare L.C.T. Tiffany Studios Bronze Pottery Lamp Base
By Louis Comfort Tiffany
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Favrile bronze pottery lamp base was one of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s later interests and very few were made before his death.
Pottery
Charlotte Rhead Art Deco Bursley Ware Art Pottery Lamp Base
By Charlotte Rhead
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual Art Deco Bursley Ware twin handled art pottery lamp base decorated with tube lined designs on a pink ground by renowned English designer Charlotte Rhead (British, 1885-194...
Ceramic
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|$1,350
Terracotta Pottery Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Rustic and stylish earthen ware/pottery lamp base with linen lamp shade. Lamp and shade can be sold separately
Terracotta
Signed Mid-Century Modern Lotte & Gunnar Bostlund Art Pottery Table Lamp
By Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
The art pottery lamp base is done in a series of dark brown and gold banded line work decoration on a light brown or cream background.
Pottery
Large 1970's California Pottery Lamp by Ceramic Artist Brent Bennett
By Brent Bennett
Located in New York, NY
Wonderful 1970's large California pottery lamp by Brent Bennett. The large square shaped organic pottery lamp base has been glazed in various Earth tone colors and sits on a black ...
Brass
Aesthetic Movement Electrified Oil Lamp by Longwy
By Faïenceries et Emaux de Longwy
Located in New York, NY
Wonderful decorative Aesthetic movement faience pottery lamp base by Longwy. Originally an oil lamp, later refitted to electric.
Brass
Large French Mid Century Incised Pottery Table Lamp Vallauris 1960s
By Roger Capron, Vallauris
Located in Tilburg, NL
The sculptural pottery lamp base has a very interesting shape and the intricate incised decoration makes it even more special.
Brass
Ceramic Base Table Lamp by Pottery Accolay French 1970 Handmade
By Accolay Pottery
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Accolay pottery French ceramic table lamp with white ceramic glaze color.
Ceramic
Sold|$1,800
Vibrant Blue French Art Deco Ceramic Lamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
It measures 31 height to the top of the shade and 12.5" height to the top of the pottery lamp base. The price noted in this listing includes the lamp and shade.
Brass
California Studio Pottery Glazed Ceramic Lamp Base Signed R.A. Brookes, 1950s
By R. A. Brookes
Located in Chula Vista, CA
California Studio Pottery artist signed R A Brookes glazed ceramic - Lamp base or vase, California, USA.
Ceramic
Vintage Chrome Yellow Japanese Lamp on Water Gilt Base
By Awaji Pottery
Located in New York, NY
Vintage chrome yellow Japanese lamp on water gilt base. Vibrant yellow wash pottery lamp on newly gilt original thirties wood base; newly electrified with gold silk cord and switch.
Pottery
Sold|$1,200
Pottery Vase Shape Base Table Lamp
By Gordon Martz
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice green glaze art pottery ceramic table lamp.
Brass Glazed Pottery Ceramic Cylinder Base Table Lamp
By Harvey Probber, Tommi Parzinger
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Soft green color ceramic glaze cylinder base table lamp.
Brass
Art Pottery Olive Green Vase Shape Base Table Lamp
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern vase shape art pottery table lamp.
Green Fat Lava Lamp Base West Germany Earthenware 50cm
By West German Pottery
Located in Poperinge, BE
Beautiful large green ceramic lamp base with fat lava drip glaze, West German earthenware from the second half of the 20th century, circa 1960s, numbered 2052/48 on the bottom. This...
Ceramic
Mid-century modern pottery Bitossi table lamp base, Italy.
By Bitossi
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A beautiful handmade ceramic lamp base from Bitossi, Italy. This is very adorable little lamp which has very muted colours, with a warm pale brown base with green details in the midd...
Ceramic
1960s Clean Modern Pottery Lamp White Geometric Glazed Ceramic on Bronze Base
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in Chula Vista, CA
LAMP Modern Lamp White Glazed Ceramic Pottery on Bronze Base circa 1960s No maker stamp visible.
Ceramic, Pottery
Pair of Tall Gamboni Style Italian Pottery Lamps Blue Base with White Decoration
By Gamboni Studios
Located in Ferndale, MI
Tall Italian pottery lamps. Very much in the style of the great Italian potteries Fantoni or Gamboni.
Pottery
Sold|$350
1950s Pottery Lamp
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1950s pottery lamp on wood gilt base.
Sold|$450
Mid Century Studio Pottery Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A Mid-Century Modern studio pottery lamp. Wood base. Beige tones with a brown glaze applied in an abstract pattern.
Pottery, Wood
Ceramic Studio Pottery Table Light Base by Jette Helleroe Ceramics Denmark, 1970
By Jette Hellerøe
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article: Ceramic table light base Producer: Jette Helleroe, Denmark Decade: 1970s This original vintage ceramic Pottery light base was designed and ...
Ceramic, Pottery
Whimsical Hand Thrown Vase Lamp Base Teddy Bear
Located in South Burlington, VT
This is a wonderful handmade, hand-painted and hand glazed few- of- a- kind, mid-century modern ceramic creation of a tall classic footed bottle vase or possible lamp base by master ...
Ceramic, Pottery
Onion Shape Turquoise Glaze Art Pottery Table Lamp
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern art pottery table lamp on brass base.
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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