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Item type: Antique and Vintage
Material: Ormolu
Belle Époque Period Gilt Bronze Candelabra
Located in London, GB
These candelabra represent 19th century French design at its most playful and inventive, modelled in gilt bronze in the form of highly stylized dolphins. The candelabra each have sev...
Category
19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Early 19th Century Candelabras in Gilded and Patinated Bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of three-branched candelabras in gilded and patinated bronze. They each feature a winged, patinated bronze cupid who is standing on a sphere and holding a torch with three candl...
Category
Early 19th Century French Restauration Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Gilt Bronze Mounted Bisque Figures after Boizot
Located in London, GB
Pair of gilt bronze mounted bisque figures after Boizot. Each inscribed ''Canova'' and modelled after ''L'etude'' and ''La Philosophie'' designed by Sim...
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1890s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Mid-19th Century Blue Porcelain Table Lamp with Flambé Glaze and Ormolu Mounts
Located in London, GB
A mid-19th century French blue flambé vase with ormolu mounts, now mounted as a lamp.
Please note: Lampshade not included.
Currently wired for the UK. Please enquire for rewiri...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Fine Pair of 19th Century Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Porcelain Vases Oil Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of Chinese Export, 19th century porcelain bottle vases mounted with French ormolu as oil lamps. The well potted ovoid porcelain pear-shaped body decorated with hand-paint...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century Ormolu-Mounted Granite Vases
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French vases with ormolu mounts on granite, now mounted as lamps.
Category
19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Granite, Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Celadon Lave or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Chinese celadon vase or lamp, having floral decoration and mounted in an ormolu base and a top.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Chinese Famille Rose Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century style Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vase, having mythical Dragons, flowers and foliage to the yellow ground. Mounted on gilded ormolu base and top.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Powder Blue Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Chinese powder blue and famille verte vase / lamp. Having a dark blue ground with gilded clouds, bats and dragon decora...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large Fine Quality Pair of Louis XVI Style Bronze Candelabra, circa 1860
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality and rare large pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style candelabra in bronze and gilded ormolu, each with patinated bronze semi clad maidens holding gilded cornucop...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Chinese, Crackle Finish, Celadon Porcelain Vases with Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in New York, NY
A fine pair of Chinese Celadon Crackle finish porcelain vases mounted in beautiful two-toned French gilt bronze mounts in the Louis XVI style, which are finely hand chiseled. Porcela...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An impressive 19th century Chinese Famille rose vase or lamp. Having beautifully painted panels depicting mortals in a temple and gardens, set in a floral surrounds and having gilded...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Chinese Blue and White Vase Lamp, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A striking Chinese Blue and White vase, having French scrolling foliate ormolu mounts and handles.
Converted to a lamp.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th-20th Century Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Putti Table Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XV style figural gilt bronze Putti torchere table lamps on a Rouge Royal base. Each figure representi...
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Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Gilt Bronze 2-Light Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Gilt Bronze 2-Light Bouillotte Lamp,
with decorated tole shade
with decorated tole shade
Category
20th Century French Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large Pair of Rose Medallion 19th Century Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of 19th century Chinese rose medallion / Cantonese vases / lamps. Each having classical Chinese scenes of people in gardens and on verandas...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large Pair of French Onyx and Ormolu Lamps
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large pair of onyx and ormolu lamps, each with a central fluted column surmounted by a sconce and supporting six further ornate branches of lights, all r...
Category
1910s French Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Onyx, Ormolu
Pair of French Cassolettes Marble and Ormolu Bronze Table Lamps. Circa 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of French cassolettes marble and ormolu bronze table lamps with rams head mounts, floral ribbon swags, hoof feet, and terminatin...
Category
1810s French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French Ormolu and Porcelain Covered Urn Lamps, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
Beautiful 19th century pair of French gilt bronze and porcelain covered urns mounted to lamps. Rich blue porcelain urn portraying several playful cupid scenes flanked by ormolu masks...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Marble and Ormolu Columnar Lamp
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This stately French lamp has a green column with an ormolu collar situated on a green marble triangular plinth with ormolu mounts, 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Tall French Empire Bronze Doré Six-Arm Candelabra as Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
A large pair of French Empire period chased, gilded bronze six-arm candelabra converted into table lamps. The bases rise from triangular plinths supporting three winged sphinxes with...
Category
Early 1800s French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Large Pair of Japanese 19th Century Bronze Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of 19th century, Japanese, Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze vases each with mythical dragons wrapped around them, gilded highlights. Mounted in lated gilded orm...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Chinese Blanc de Chine, French Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Chinese Blanc de Chine and antique French Louis XV style ormolu-mounted table lamps. The porcelain is finely hand engraved wit...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Classical 19th Century Gilded Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A pair of classical gilded ormolu and marble urn lamps, each with scrolling handles and bearded mask mounts.
Category
19th Century French Classical Greek Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Ormolu
19th Century Chinese style Famille Verte Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Samson copy of a Chinese style Famille Verte vase or lamp. Having a blue ground with inset painted panels depicting a mountain scene with pagoda building ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Cut-Glass Candelabra
Located in London, GB
Six-light candelabra, ormolu with a glass spike surmount and two rows of hanging glass daggers and beads, one above and one below the six candles.
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Fine Gilt Bronze Empire Candelabra Lamp
Located in NYC, NY
A bronze and gilded bronze five-light candelabra, in the Napoleonic Empire style with two-bulb cluster.
A Classic lamp with good patina and scale.
Ex. Christies Auction...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Islamic Influenced 19th Century Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century marble and gilded ormolu urns, converted to lamps.
Category
19th Century English Islamic Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French Gilt Bronze Candlestick Lamps
Located in Pembroke, MA
Pair of French Louis XIV style gilt bronze candlesticks, converted to table lamps, with recent French pleated silk lampshades. These lamps have been wired for the U.S.
Category
1850s French Louis XIV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Gilt Bronze and Crystal Lamps by Jansen
Located in New York, NY
Pair of crystal and mercury gilded bronze table lamps with balloon-shaped shades 'en suite' by Jansen. They were created by Maison Jansen, the world's first global design firm. From ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
French Gilt Bronze Baroque Style Candlestick Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French gilt bronze baroque style candlestick lamp
Category
Early 17th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Superb Antique Louis XVI Style Bagues Gilt Bronze and Rock Crystal Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Exquisite & Rare Antique French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze, Cut Rock Crystal, Amethyst Rock Crystal & Amber Glass multi light Candelabra Table Lamps embellished with gilt ...
Category
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Rock Crystal, Ormolu
Large Pair of 19th Century Japanese Bronze Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of Meiji period (1868-1912) Japanese bronze vases, each having foliate and floral decoration with birds in relief, gilded ormolu tops and bases.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Gilt Bronze Ostrich Egg Lamps by Charles
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Chic pair of gilt bronze neoclassical lamps centered on Ostrich eggs, Signed on bottom by Maison Charles. Great quality, wonderful detailing.
Category
20th Century French Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Gilt and Blue 'Sevres' Porcelain Lamps
Located in London, GB
Constructed in ormolu and ‘Sevres’ porcelain; rising from square ormolu bases with re-entrant radiused angles, the stepped platforms adorned with stiff leaf castings, having pearl ...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Ormolu Figural Lamps, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
Outstanding opposing pair of 19th century French Louis XVI style ormolu lamps with rouge marble bases.
With parcel gilt and paint decorated faux parchment shade.
Each ormolu lamp...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Antique French Neoclassical Rock Crystal and Ormolu Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Extraordinary pair of antique French neoclassical and Empire style rock crystal and ormolu lamps. Rock crystal at the base is adorned with decorations of the classical instrument the...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Rock Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Bronze Putti Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Spectacular Pair of 19th century French Gilt Bronze Putti candelabra lamps.
Original marble socle bases. True pair A left side and A right sided...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French Mid-Century Rose Quartz and Bronze Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French 1940s rose quartz and bronze dore table lamps with 3 seahorses at base (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
1940s French Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Antique French Empire Porcelain and Ormolu-Mounted Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of antique French Empire red porcelain and ormolu-mounted lamps, attributed to Sèvres. The porcelain bases of the lamps are decorated with ovals depicting bouquets of hand paint...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Empire Bronze and Quartz Swan Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Empire style (1940s) gilt bronze and rose quartz table lamps with 3 swans at base (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
1940s French Empire Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of 19th C. French Faux Marble Tole Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Lovely pair of lamps made from 19th Century French tole and gilt bronze oil lamps, with a faux marble paint finish. Shades not included,...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Ormolu
Pair of gilt brass and bronze bottle-shaped lamps, circa 1880
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of gilt brass and bronze bottle-shaped lamps with Etruscan style handles, standing on a Chinese style circular openwork base. The belly is decorated with a discreet fluted friez...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu, Sheet Metal
Pair of French Porcelain Pat Sue Pat Vases in Orientalist Taste Mounted as Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A fine and quite unusual pair of antique French ormolu-mounted Pate Sur Pate porcelain vases, beautifully decorated in the orientalist motif, originally mounted as oil lamps, still h...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Louis XV Bronze Dore Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XV style (1940s) bronze dore and green agate table lamps with 3 swans at base (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
1940s French Louis XV Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Agate, Ormolu
Gilded Electrified Candlestick Lamps Signed by Sterling Bronze Co. Circa 1910s
Located in New York, NY
ATL1836
A pair of single light gilt bronze electrified candlesticks having crystal bobeches dressed with spear and rosette prisms. Signed by t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Baroque Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu, Bronze
Pair of French Victorian Porcelain Celadon Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Victorian porcelain pate-su-pate celadon lamps with floral decoration and gilt bronze base and trim. (Originally oil now wired for electric)(PRICED AS Pair).
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Lamp Table 19th Century Gilt bronze Metal Shade Neoclassical France
Located in New York, NY
Lamp 19th Century Gilt bronze Metal Shade Neoclassical France . A French Bouillotte lamp made in gilt bronze and a painted metal shade. 3 electrified candle arms.
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Caryatid Lamps
Located in Pembroke, MA
Pair of elegant gilded bronze and patinated bronze candelabra in the form of caryatids on black marble plinths, which have been converted into lamps with custom silk pleated shades.
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Pair of gilt bronze Rocaille style candlesticks, circa 1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of chiseled and gilt bronze Rocaille style candlesticks mounted in lamps and standing on an asymmetrical base with guilloche. The central support is made of curved volutes toppe...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Gilt Bronze Candelabrum Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A French gilt bronze Empire style candelabrum lamp. Rewired.
Shade not included.
Category
19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Tall Japanese Gilt Bronze Urn Table Lamp
Located in Chicago, IL
Gilt brass Japanese urn with a pair of handles, the top handles with rings. Bands of relief at each pair of handles.
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Bronze and Leather Lamp by Etienne Kohlmann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Table lamp with black leather base of classical scroll form with gilt bronze and painted wood faux candle. With original aluminum uplight and two small European socket lights on the ...
Category
1940s French Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Ormulu French Urn Lamp
Located in Hanover, MA
Ormulu and bronze classical urn on a marble pedestal wired as a lamp. Currently used as a spot up-light.
Category
1930s French Vintage Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Pair of Patinated and Gilt Bronze French Empire Cassolettes as Custom Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
an exquisite French Empire pair of finely cast patinated and gilt bronze cassolettes now as custom lamps, rectangular plinth bases with ormolu / gilt bronze bas relief portrait profi...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Chinese Export 19th Century Famille Verte Porcelain Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful Chinese Export 19th century Famille Verte porcelain lamp with French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu mounts. The lamp is ra...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Blue-and-White Porcelain Lamps
Located in London, GB
A FINE PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN LAMPS, THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD, THE MOUNTS LATE 19TH CENTURY.
Fitted for electricity.
17in. (43cm) high, exc. fitment
Category
19th Century Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Bronze Candlestick Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and patinated bronze electrified candlestick lamps. Each lamp is raised by a square base in a unique and most decorati...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Ormolu Table Lamps and Other Ormolu Lighting for Sale on 1stDibs
Able to double as task lighting, table lamps can illuminate darker corners of a room, and antique ormolu table lamps and other ormolu lighting can be incorporated into a variety of spaces.
Your style of decorating doesn't have to necessarily have to be rooted in neoclassical design in order to tastefully introduce ormolu — while demand for the material and/or technique was at its peak in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, ormolu table lamps, desk lamps and other ormolu furniture and decor are still widely loved by contemporary designers and collectors.
What is ormolu?
Ormolu is a brilliant form of decorative trickery. To the untrained eye, ormolu table lamps, clocks, jewelry boxes and other ormolu furniture and decor look like they're made of solid gold. But those in the know recognize ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — as having been essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
“Most commonly, ormolu refers to a bronze object that has been covered with gold, typically 18 karat or 24 karat,” explains Jamie Sinai, director of the antiques specialist Mayfair Gallery, in London. “For that reason, ormolu is sometimes called gilt bronze or, in French, bronze doré. Strictly speaking, however, the term ormolu also denotes the technique of applying gold to a metal.”
“The word comes from the French or moulu, which translates as ‘ground or powdered gold’ — the form the gold takes before it is applied to a metal surface.”
From the court of King Louis XVI to that of Napoleon I, the French elite snapped up furniture mounted with ormolu, as well as sconces, candelabra and table lamps made from the material.
If you're looking to bring a touch of this 19th-century pizzazz to your desk, an antique ormolu table lamp is a decorative touch that blends ornament and functionality. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room, and a well-crafted ormolu table lamp does more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Today, antiques collectors and interior designers seek out the finest in ormolu clocks and continue to prize ormolu for its extraordinary craftsmanship and history-infused glamour.
“This wondrous material was highly sought after in France as the ultimate luxury. It magically resembled solid gold and sparkled under candlelight,” says Sinai.
Find antique ormolu table lamps, ormolu floor lamps and other ormolu lighting on 1stDibs.
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