Blue and White Chinese Baluster Form Vase Adapted as a Lamp

Pair of porcelain floral and gold trim vases with handles adapted as lamps, 20th Century.

18th century bronze pricket or candlestick adapted as a lamp with a custom-made silk shade embellished with trim.  

19th century pair of capitol fragments adapted as lamps.

Italian giltwood foliate ornament adapted as a lamp, 19th century.

Pair of 19th century pewter figurines adapted as lamps with custom painted shades and hi-lo switches.

Italian gilt and painted wood scroll fragment adapted as a lamp, 18th century.  

each tall vase with flaring neck above a bulbous body ending in a splayed foot; adorned overall with hand-painted lappet perimeter bands and floral vines; raised on custom wooden pai...

A very handsome, small blue and white Chinese export baluster jar.

Chinese baluster form porcelain vase in a "powder blue" glaze. The vase has been drilled at the base, electrified, and mounted on a hardwood stand. Chinese, Late Qing Dynasty, 1880-1...

A Chinese baluster form table lamp, with red ground and floral vines raised on a turned pierced base. Together with matched shade. Dimensions: Total...

A matched pair of Chinese blue and white vases decorated with scenes of birds amongst foliage and the other with vases and objects. Now mounted as table lamps, each raised on turned ...

Late 17th Century Dutch Delft Faience Blue and White Chinoiserie Baluster Vase Mounted as a Lamp and newly electrified. Decorated in imitation of a Chinese Ming vase with a sage, rocks and vegetation, mounted on a wood base. The dimensions noted include the lampshade and electrical fittings. The vase as mounted in wood is approximately 10in. high and 6in. diameter. The arrival in Western Europe of the first shiploads of Chinese porcelain, lacquerware, ivory and silk in the 17th century stimulated interest in China, or Cathay, as it was then called. Europeans soon began copying the Chinese artworks and decorative objects. These decorative arts inspired by China, which enjoyed their heyday in the late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, are known as chinoiserie. Soon after the introduction of expensive Chinese...