Large Delft Blue and White Ceramic Ginger Jar Mounted as a Table Lamp

With craquelure finish, exaggerated long neck and silvered wood base. Height to top of vase is 24".

Of archaistic form with brown craquelure overall and broad matte band with low relief decoration; mounted on a turned giltwood base and fitted with gold-lacquered brass adjustable ro...

Of baluster form; mounted with antiqued brass adjustable rod and two bulb sockets; on a turned giltwood base. Provenance: From the Collection of Mario Buatta, New York, NY.

Of square tapering form; decorated with a peacock and tree peony branch in a bold polychrome palette; mounted on a black wood square base. Fitted with a brass adjustable rod and two ...

Antique blue and white on celadon Chinese porcelain ginger jar converted as a lamp. Hand painted double happiness motif with floral decoration. Mounted on shaped rosewood base. 16" t...

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...

Low Countries, circa 1890 A late nineteenth century blue and white Delft vase decorated with tropical flowers and leaves, mounted as a lamp with brass mounts. Height of vase 3...

Beautiful Blue and white hand painted ceramic ginger jar lamps made in Hong Kong in the 1980s. mounted in mahogany scroll bases with original ceramic finials.