Italian Victorian Porcelain Cherub Lamp
By Capodimonte
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian Victorian style porcelain lamp with four cupid who are reading a book. With the original lampshade. Height 24.4" - 62 cm. Diameter 12.2" - 31 cm. Height base 14.5" - 37...
Brass
Late 19th C French Victorian Gilt Bronze Cherub Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
French Victorian lamp featuring cast bronze cupids holding fruit filled cornucopia candle arms, mounted on a marble and brass base. The lamp is in very good, original clean, working...
Marble, Brass
$760Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Victorian Onyx, Gilt & Silvered Metal Figural Cherub Parlor Lamp C1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
This Victorian parlor lamp, dating to circa 1890, features a stunning combination of materials and craftsmanship.
Onyx, Metal
Victorian Style Set of Bronze Table Lamps With Marble Base, Cherubs
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Pair of Victorian Style Table Lamps. It depicts two bronze lamps that their pipes are a tree trunk decorated with a relief of branches of leaves.
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Victorian Brass Cherub Table Lamp with Marble Base
Located in Queens, NY
French Victorian style brass table lamp of a cupid holding a light on a fluted column on a square marble base. Ships without a shade
Brass
PAIR OF ANTIQUE VICTORIAN GILT BRONZE MARBLE CHERUB CANDELABRA TABLE LAMPs
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of original French Louis XVII style Gold gilt Bronze on Marble bases Cherub candelabras c...
Marble, Bronze
Vintage French Victorian Renaissance Figural Cherub Musician Metal Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Victorian Renaissance Figural Triple Cherub Musician Metal Table Lamp with Blue/Green and Gold Distress Painted Finish.
Metal
Pair of Victorian Solid Cast Bronze Figural Cherub Oil Lamp Bases Holding Snakes
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This matched pair of solid cast bronze figural cherub oil lamp bases are unmarked, but presumed to be made in the United States during the Victorian period.
Bronze
Sculpted Cherub Table Lamp, Brass, Marble, Circa 1890
Located in Worcester Park, GB
An elegant antique table lamp featuring two sculpted cherubs climbing an ornate urn-form body adorned with floral garlands.
Marble, Brass
Antique German Sitzendorf Dresden Porcelain Cherubs Converted Oil Lamp
By Sitzendorf
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique German Sitzendorf Dresden converted oil lamp mantel trophy urn featuring a design of climbing roses and reclining cherubs. Marked on base with crossed lines, circa 1884 - 190...
Porcelain
Small Italian Bronze Cherub Table Lamp With Opaline Orb Sphere
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Small unusual table light composed of an Italian Putti in patinated bronze/bronze alloy supporting a white opaline glass sphere - Globe. Stylistically it resembles pieces utilized by...
Bronze
Antique Cast Figural Cherub Table Lamp with a Ruffled Opalescent Shade
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique cast spelter figural cherub lamp has no maker's marks, but is presumed to have originated from Italy in the late 19th century and in Victorian style.
Spelter
Antique French Moreau Figural Full Cherub Painted Metal Table Lamps - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Moreau Figural Full Cherub Painted Metal Table Lamps - a Pair. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 33" H (to finial) x 26" H (to light socket) x 7" W x 5" D. {3-Wa...
Metal
T. W. Walker's Cherub Maritime Brass Log Spinner Up-Cycled to Table Lamp
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Brass ship's log / speed spinner called Cherubs made in England by T.W. Walker, a nautical engineering firm in England. Maker marked on each fin with the name of the company and an a...
Brass
Unavailable
H 20.87 in W 5.12 in D 5.12 in
Stylish 19th Century Bronze Lamp Base of a Half Nude Lady with Cherub
Located in London, GB
A stylish 19th century bronze lamp base in the form of a half nude lady with a winged cherub (putto) at her feet. Please note this is sold as seen the lamp fitting does not work and...
Bronze
Sold
H 29.14 in W 9.45 in D 8.67 in
Vintage Table Top Lamp, Gilt Metal, Cherubic Light, 20th Century, circa 1990
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a table lamp. An English, gilt metal cherubic light, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1990. Attractive golden tones Displays a desirable aged patina Gilt metal in ...
Metal
Classical Cherub Gone with the Wind Embossed Brass Parlor Lamp, circa 1880
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique gone with the wind parlor table lamp offers high relief embossed brass classical cherub scenes raised on pierced foot and surmounted by hand painted floral globe, electrif...
Brass
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H 27 in W 10 in D 10 in
Antique Figural Cherub Blown Out Milk Glass Gone-with-the-Wind Table Lamp c1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Figural Cherub Blown Out Milk Glass Gone-with-the-Wind Table Lamp, Electrified, c1890 Measures - 27"h x 10"w x 10"d This antique table lamp, dating to circa 1890, features a ...
Glass
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H 15.95 in W 6.5 in D 6.01 in
Antique Pair Japanese Chinese Imari Porcelain Ormolu Table Lamps Cherubs Gilt
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning pair traditional Japanese Imari Bulbous and waisted form Porcelain Vases of generous proportions, now converted to a pair of electric Table Lamps, Each with twin ormolu moun...
Ormolu
Antique Gone with the Wind Gilt and Hand-Painted Cherub and Rose Oil Lamp
Located in Big Flats, NY
Classical Victorian Gone-with-the-wind oil lamp has hand-painted Classical scene including cherubs and rose garland, circa 1890.
Glass
Sold
H 27 in W 10.75 in D 10.75 in
Victorian Cherub Face Milk Glass Double Globe & Bronze Converted Parlor Oil Lamp
Located in Plainview, NY
A Victorian style Cherub Face Milk Glass Double Globe Converted Parlor Oil Lamp.
Bronze
Midcentury Neoclassical Hollywood Regency Cherubs Putti Oil Lamps
Located in Antwerp, BE
A pair of impressive / monumental Victorian copper sculptural oil table lamps showing putti figures / wingless cherubs with grape leaves and swirling vines.
Copper
Sold
H 15.5 in W 6 in D 4 in
Antique Pair of French Sèvres Celeste Porcelain Gilt Bronze Cherub Table Lamps
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A fine pair of stylish and imposing French ormolu electric table lamps of outstanding quality and medium proportions. First half of the 19th century. Each with a central kneeling...
Ormolu
Antique Gone with the Wind Oil Lamp, Blown Out Milk Glass Cherub Shade
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Gone with the wind electrified oil lamp features scroll and foliate decorated font surmounting spiral shaft and seated on pierced foliate cast metal base and having blown ...
Metal
Pair of Antique Cherub Oil Lamps Converted to Electric
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Offered is a beautiful pair of antique oil lamps that have been converted to electric. Each lamp feature two cherubs and three lights with globes.
Spelter
Boudoir Lamp Gold Cherub with Rosette and Fringe Shade
Located in Pataskala, OH
The putti holds an urn on his shoulder and sits atop a base of domed marble and cut metal base. When lit he has a warm golden glow. The charming shade has alternating panels of lace ...
$960Sale Price|20% Off
H 35.5 in W 25 in D 25 in
Antique Arts & Crafts Hammered Brass Chandelier with Glass Shades C1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Arts & Crafts Hammered Brass Chandelier with Glass Shades C1920 Measures - 35.5"H x 25"W x 25"D
Brass
$950
H 32 in W 9 in D 9 in
Antique Victorian Parlor Brass Gone With The Wind Hubbard & Bradley Floral Lamp
Located in Portsmouth, VA
Step back in time with this enchanting electrified Victorian lamp, a treasure from the transition of gas to electric lighting. Celebrating the craftsmanship of the esteemed Bradley a...
Onyx, Brass
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.
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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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Enriching rooms with layers of visual interest is key to the New York– and Toronto-based decorator’s signature style.