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Tribal Pottery Lamp

African Tribal inspired Pottery Lamp with Custom Shade
Located in Atlanta, GA
African Tribal inspired pottery lamp on wooden base , late 20th century in muted earth tones.
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Late 20th Century Table Lamps

Materials

Ceramic

Tall Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund Cocoa & Cream "Tribal" Pottery Table Lamp, 1960's
By Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Bostlund Hand Painted Glazed Ceramic Table Lamp with Cream Jute Shade. Featuring a hand-painted
Category

Vintage 1960s Canadian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Stoneware

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1950s Sgrafitto Pottery Table Lamp Tribal Amoeba Design
By Guido Gambone
Located in Miami, FL
lamp of red clay pottery is very warm, masculine and tribal. The pottery is 14" high and it is 17" to
Category

Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Pair of Vintage Bitossi Italian Art Pottery Navajo Tribal Lamps
By Bitossi
Located in Wilton, CT
Large and heavy pair of hand-turned, vintage Bitossi lamps with earth colored glazes in geometric
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Navajo Table Lamps

Materials

Pottery

Elegant Italian Pottery Table Lamp, Decorated Tribal Motif
By Gambone Fantoni
Located in Buffalo, NY
Elegant Italian pottery table lamp, decorated Tribal motif. Shaded browns, grays and blacks
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Paint, Pottery

Vintage Bitossi Italian Art Pottery Geometric Woven Indian Tribal Lamp Raymor
By Bitossi
Located in Wilton, CT
Big, heavy, hand-turned, vintage Bitossi lamp with earth colored glazes in geometric pattern over a
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Pottery

Pair of Ugo Zaccagnini Incised Tribal Table Lamps in Brown & Cream, 1950s
By Ugo Zaccagnini
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Italian Modern Ugo Zaccagnini handcrafted sgraffito Art Pottery Table Lamps. Featuring deep brown
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Brass

Moroccan Glazed Clay Metal Thread Mounted Table Lamps, a Pair
Located in Miami, FL
vintage Moroccan pottery glazed clay table lamps with great metal thread-wrapped details at the tops and
Category

Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Table Lamps

Materials

Metallic Thread

Moroccan Glazed Clay Metal Thread Mounted Table Lamps, a Pair
Located in Miami, FL
vintage Moroccan pottery glazed clay table lamps with great metal thread-wrapped details at the tops and
Category

Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Table Lamps

Materials

Metallic Thread

Decorative Pottery Lamp
Located in Hudson, NY
Large pottery lamp with tribal decoration.
Category

Mid-20th Century American Table Lamps

Materials

Pottery

Decorative Pottery Lamp
Decorative Pottery Lamp
H 31 in Dm 10.5 in

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1960s Lotte Bostlund Tribal Ceramic Table Lamp, Original Fiberglass Shade
By Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Rare, unusual lamp to have come from the Bostlunds. Original fiberglass shade, original plug and socket — all in good working order.
Category

Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Ceramic, Fiberglass

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Tribal Pottery Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal tribal pottery lamp for your home. A tribal pottery lamp — often made from ceramic, pottery and stoneware — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect tribal pottery lamp — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right tribal pottery lamp, those designed in mid-century modern and Scandinavian Modern styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made tribal pottery lamp over the years, but those crafted by Marianne Starck, Michael Andersen & Son and Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Tribal Pottery Lamp?

Prices for a tribal pottery lamp start at $695 and top out at $6,000 with the average selling for $1,543.

Finding the Right Table-lamps for You

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.