Patinated Floor Lamps

An exceptional piece! Superb sculpture floor lamp in patinated and painted bronze and brass, depicting a Japanese crane (tsuru) / heron / wading bird picking red berries in the middle of lush nature (flowers, water lily leaves). 5 lights with tulip shades in glass / opaline colors. Art Nouveau / Japonisme style, France, around 1900. Inspired by the productions of Meiji Japan, which was opening up to the rest of the world, Western artists, particularly the French, were inspired by them. The movement called "Japonisme" was born and from it flowed Art...

A Rare Tall Pompeiian Style 19th-20th century gilt patinated bronze tripod torchere Floor Lamp fitted with a molded glass shade. The tall fluted center column, topped with decorated ...

A very fine pair of French 19th-20th century neoclassical style patinated cast iron figural torchères by A. Durenne, Paris, each representing a figure of a standing young maiden, her arms raised forward while holding a a flaming urn gas light (Now electrified) with a frosted glass flame, each raised on a veined grey marble column stand, both cast-signed 'A. Durenne, Paris'. Antoine Durenne was an internationally renowned French art founder. He attended École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1842. Durenne purchased a small foundry in Sommevoire, near the Val d'Osne, Haute-Marne, France and established The Durenne firm, circa Paris, 1900. Cast-iron had been in production during the 18th century but its inferior status to the more fashionable and delicate wrought iron had generally confined its use to architectural work. By the early 19th century, however, rapid developments of the Industrial Revolution combined with the simultaneous burgeoning of a new middle class provided the impetus for a dramatic Expansion in its application and in a short space of time a proliferation of iron foundries across Europe and America thrived on the production of everything from inkstands to railway stations. The use of cast-iron for garden ornament became particularly widespread at this time, as the possibilities for its mass-production at a fraction of the cost of bronze made it the material of choice for outdoor statuary...

A pair of Italian 19th-20th century Florentine cut-clear and color glass four-lights girandoles table lamps. The scrolled bronze frame with four scrolled candle-arms, surmounted with...

A palatial pair of French Belle Époque 19th-20th century gilt bronze and alabaster tall torchières. The slender center column raised on a circular intri...

Rare tripod floor lamp in the Pompeiian style attributed to the Caldwell & Company foundry. Patinated bronze verdigris finish. Electrified with two sockets.

An impressively scaled and finely fabricated floor lamp in patinated steel and polished brass having two articulating arms that also can be adjusted vertically, rising from a stepped...

A 3-arm Industrial style floor lamp manufactured by O.C. White featuring impressively scaled and finely fabricated parts in patinated stee...