English Green Tole Tea Canister Lamp on Custom Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
A striking green tole tea canister lamp from England, transformed into a one of a kind lighting piece.
Antique 1890s English Table Lamps
Metal
English Green Tole Tea Canister Lamp on Custom Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
A striking green tole tea canister lamp from England, transformed into a one of a kind lighting piece.
Metal
$5,200 / set
Gilt Tea Canister Lamps with Red Details
Located in New York, NY
A pair of circa 1940s English tea canister mounted as lamps, original patina and red details.
Metal
A Pair of 19th Century Chinese Black Tea Canister Lamps
Located in London, GB
China, circa 1890 A pair of late nineteenth century black and gold tea canisters, with calligraphic cartouches to the fronts, one marked 10 and the other 11.
Metal
Pair of Large English Tole Tea Canister Lamps With Chinoiserie Decoration
Located in Houston, TX
The striking 19th century tea canisters were later converted into table lamps.
Paint
Pair of English Red Tole Peinte Tea Canister Lamps with Orientalist Landscapes
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 19th c., England, a pair of red enameled sheet metal tole table lamps, painted with Orientalist landscapes. The landscapes are encircled by a gold painted border. Each of the tw...
Brass, Sheet Metal, Enamel
A fine 19th century English Regency tole and hand painted tea canister lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century English Regency tole lamp. Hand painted in the Chinoiserie design. Fine painting and details. Large pagoda design . Custom wired and shaded
Tin
Pair of Vintage "Numbered" Tole Canister Lamps with Tole Shades
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Pair of Vintage "Numbered" Tole Tea Canister Lamps with original Tole Shades. Wired and in working condition.
Metal
Vintage Tole Tea Cannister Lamp
Located in Bradenton, FL
Vintage Tole Tea Canister Lamp, creatively repurposed from a a decorative metal tea tin and transformed into a statement lighting piece.
Metal
Chinoiserie Tea Canister Tole Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Black-on-gold tole lamp is decorated with engravings of doubly repeated Chinese figures in a fantasy garden, as well as bands of Greek Revival motif top and bottom. Lamp sits on blac...
Metal
Frederick Cooper Tea Canister Tole Lamp
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Vintage tea canister tole lamp finished overall in black with a decorative gilt number 84 and foliate designs in gold, green, and oxblood color.
Metal
$2,750 / set
Pair Tea Canister Table Lamps, 20th Century
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a pair of very decorative tea canister table lamps. We believe that the chinoiserie canister bases were created in the 1980s to intentionally mimic actual earlier 20th centu...
Metal
$1,650 / set
Fine Pair Of Decorative Tea Canister Form Lamps
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Attractive decorative tea canisters in bright orange red with colorful details. Each has an oval panel with fruits in a landscape setting. Green and peach tone swags frame the tops a...
Metal
Chinoiserie Etched Brass Tea Caddy Canister Table Lamp, 1970s
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage hand-crafted brass tea canister or tea caddy style table lamp features octagonal form with 4 larger sides decorated with etched Chinoiserie motifs.
Brass
Early 20th Century French Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps – Pair
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A pair of early 20th century French tole tea canisters, later converted into table lamps.
Metal
Chinoiserie Table Lamps, Green and Gilt Tea Canisters, Circa 1880
Located in London, GB
A magnificent pair of late 19th century green and gilt chinoiserie decorated tea canisters of rounded form with pagoda shaped tops, now mounted as lamps with hand gilded turned bases...
Metal
$658Sale Price / set|30% Off
2 Brass Chinoiserie Hollywood Regency Octagonal Tea Caddy Canister Table Lamps
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of late 20th century Hollywood Regency / Chinoiserie octagonal brass tea caddy / canister shaped table lamps with black wood bases.
Brass
Pair of Blue and White Chinese Porcelain Tea Canisters Table Lamps
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Pair of midcentury Chinese porcelain table lamps on a wooden base. Pair of blue and white Chinese tea canisters converted into table lamps.
Porcelain
Vintage Chapman Oriental English Metal Tea Canister Figural Painted Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chapman Oriental English Metal Tea Canister Figural Painted Table Lamp. Circa Late 20th Century.
Metal
Vintage Chinoiserie English Tole Metal Tea Canister Chinese Painted Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie English Tole Metal Tea Canister Chinese Painted Table Lamp, Made in Great Britain.
Metal
19th Century Parcel Gilt and Ebonized Weighted Tea Canister Dual Lights Lamp
Located in Germantown, MD
A 19th Century Parcel Gilt and Ebonized Weighted Tea Canister mounted as Table Lamp with Original finish.
Metal
Vintage Chinoiserie Tole Metal Square English Tea Canister Table Lamps - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie Tole Metal Square Paint Decorated English Tea Canister Table Lamps - a Pair. Circa Mid 20th Century.
Metal
Vintage Chinoiserie Red Tole Metal Tea Canister Table Lamp by Vaughan Design Ltd
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie Red Tole Metal Tea Canister Table Lamp by Vaughan Design Ltd. Circa Late 20th Century.
Metal
English Chinoiserie Tea Tin Red and Gold Canister Made into a Table Lamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English Chinoiserie tea tin red and gold canister from the 19th century made into a table lamp wired for the USA.
Tin
Antique Pair of English Black and Gold Tole Tea Canisters Adapted to Table Lamps
Located in Morristown, NJ
A pair of late 19th c. tea canisters adapted to table lamps each with 3 bulb sockets.
Metal, Brass
Red Painted Tole Lamp with Chinoiserie Decor, 20th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
In the mid-20th century, mounting these exotic tea canisters as lamps became a signature of prominent classic decorators looking to introduce touches of exoticism and color into affl...
Mahogany
English Victorian Style Chinoiserie Red Tole Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian style (20th Century) square shaped red tole and Chinoiserie decorated tea canister mounted as a lamp. Ships without a shade
Metal
Frederick Cooper Chinoiserie Table Lamps Vintage Circa 1950’s
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
English tin tea canisters. Circa 1950’s. Vintage 1950's Chinoiserie Metal Tea Canister Table Lamps.
Metal
Large English Neo-Classical Cannister Style Tole Metal Table Lamps - Pair
By John Richard
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is an offering for a pair of large scale tole tea canister style table lamps designed by John Richard.
Metal
Vintage Frederick Cooper Chinoiserie Double Happiness Brass Drum Table Lamp Pair
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Frederick Cooper Chinoiserie "Double Happiness" Brass Drum Oriental Tea Canister Table Lamps with Drop Ring Pulls - a Pair.
Brass
Unavailable
H 12 in W 5.38 in D 5.38 in
1950s Chinoiserie Red and Black Tole Tea Canister Lamp with Leather Details
Located in Richmond, VA
Listed is a gorgeous, petite 1950s chinoiserie red and black tole tea canister lamp. Lovely detailing all-over the octagonal canister, which is complimented by the deep red/burgundy ...
Metal
19th Century Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Nashville, TN
A stunning tole, or painted metal, tea canister from the late 19th century, fashioned into a lamp with a gorgeous shade (included).
Metal
Pair of Chinoiserie Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Classic chinese export tea canisters made into lamps with decadent but worn vintage custom shades.
Tôle
A pair of 19thC tea canister lamps
Located in Grange-Over-Sands, GB
A pair of late 19thC tole tea canisters converted to lamps. The shades (which are a little worn) are included.
Tin
Pair of English Tole Tea Canister lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of semi-cylinder English shop tole tea canisters with original black and gold decoration in the chinoisserie style on a green ground now mounted and newly wired as lamps with ...
Pair of Green and Gilt Decorated Tôle Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A pair of English tea cannisters adapted into lamps, redecorated with later painted and gilded chinoiserie decoration. Gold lined black “parchment” shades. 20th century.
Tôle
Green Tole Tea Canister
Located in Stonington, CT
Now mounted as a lamp, this tea canister has the most unusual, and unique, picture on its front.
Tôle
Unavailable
Tole tea canister and cover
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Tole tea canister and cover, with parrot green ground color highlighted in gilt and black decoration in the Chinese taste. England, circa l850. Mounted on a turned wood base, el...
Pair of Mid-19th Century Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps, circa 1860
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
This is a rather charming pair of mid-19th century tole tea canister table lamps, re-wired and PAT tested, circa 1860.
Metal
Pair of Chinoiserie Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of chinoiserie tole tea canister lamps.
Tôle
19TH C. GREEN PAINTED TEA CANISTER LAMP
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ORIGINAL GREEN PAINTED TEA CANISTER LAMP WITH THE NUMBER 3 IN OLD GILDED GOLD PAINT.
Tin
Pair of 1920s Red Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Charlottesville, VA
This is a beautiful pair of tea canister lamps. They are decorated in the chinoiserie style.
Metal
Sold
H 20 in Dm 10 in L 20 in
Robust Pair of English Chinoiserie Style Red Painted Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
A robust pair of English chinoiserie style Chinese-red painted tole tea canister lamps; each painted canister adorned overall with painted figures amid a gilded and painted landscape...
Chinese Tea Canister Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Chinese black and gilt tea canister of large size decorated with Chinese characters, foliate trim and the number "13". Now electrified. Circa 1880.
Metal
Antique Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Norwalk, CT
Chinoiserie themed tea canister in Chinese red with gilded decoration. Nice scale; wonderful patina.
Tôle
Paint Decorated Chinoiserie Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Richmond, VA
Handsome paint decorated chinoiserie told tea canister converted to a lamp. Recently rewired.
Metal
Pair of Oriental Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Stamford, CT
A pair of antique tole,gilt and painted oriental tea canisters now as lamps.
Tôle
Pair of Chinoiserie Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Winter Park, FL
A wonderful pair of Chinoiserie lamps converted from tea canisters.. Made of embossed tin with metal gilts.
English Victorian Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Essex, MA
Typical form, great color and petina.
Tin
Chinese blue and white tea canister lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
Chinese blue and white tea canister now mounted as a lamp.
Porcelain
1880s Orange # 5 Tole Tea Canister lamp
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1880s tole tea canister turned into a lamp.The height is to the top of the socket.
Metal
English 19th Century Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
A painted tole tea canister wired into a lamp with painted chinoiserie scene of an exotic figure with gilt decoration and foliage over black background For many more fine antique...
Tôle
Pair of Chinese Export Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Hudson, NY
Canisters made into lamps. Wood base with bronze mounts.
Antique Chinoisiere French Metal Tea Canister Lamp
By Camard
Located in San Diego, CA
A beautiful tin can Made in France by Campro circa the 1960s, the nice vintage patinated condition shows its original finish, beautiful colors rewired 3 way, sitting on a lacquer woo...
Metal, Brass
Pair of Chinese Export Hexagonal Tea Canister Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of Chinese export tea canisters decorated with robed figured, now mounted as lamps
Metal
A Pair of English Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of octagonal English tole tea canisters with hand painted and stenciled decoration on a red ground with gilt reserve, the center panel having a Chinese figure on a gilt ground...
Pair oval English hand painted tea canister lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of oval English tole tea canisters with round reserve having hand painted design depicting sea shells and branches of coral. 28" Height to shade rest, 13" Width, 9" Depth
Pair of Victorian Green Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Green cylindrical form numbered 3 and 4, two-light, black painted wood bases.
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