20th Century Table Lamps

This piece has a large glass diffuser and chrome-colored lamella base. This piece has an attribution mark. European Plug (up to 250V).The wiring of this item may be original and migh...

Special Antique Electrified Temple Lantern - Fine Interior Lighting Choice, One-Of-A-Kind Japan, a handsome tall classic antique Temple Lantern enhanced with new interior paper and...

each artist-signed lamp of baluster form with waisted neck above an ovoid body all over a splayed foot; resting on a turned gold-painted wooden base; each adorned with well-executed ...

A French Art Deco Pate-de-verre Lamp by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau depicts two red tigers stalking their prey in a fan of purple grass. The pate-de-verre rests upon a wrought iron base also incised with tiger-like grooves. The fin de siècle French populace was captivated by exotic and dangerous subjects, such as the perceived savagery of animals and peoples of distant lands. The tigers' posture is evidently influenced by the Persian lion relief...

Produced by Hans-Agne Jakobsson in Markaryd, 1960s. New wiring.

Arts & Crafts Leaded Stained Glass Table Lamp 20thC. Measures - 22.75"H x 11.5"W x 11.5"D. An Arts & Crafts style table lamp featuring a leaded stained glass shade with vibrant...

Pair of table lamps model Eclisse with round base. The spherical diffuser is composed of a part in red metal and a hemisphere in white metal, which can be rotated to hide the light s...

A pair of circa 1930's Danish "cameo" porcelain table lamps with horse motif and silvered bronze bases. Measurements: Hight of body: 11".

Rare original version ! Here is one of the legendary Danish Le Klint Table Lamps model 306 by Professor and Architect Kaare Klint It is made of brass and comes with a vintage origina...

Pair of Italian circa 1950's blown glass Murano lamps. Measurements: Height of body: 15.25" Height to rest of shade: 25.25" Diameter: 6"

Swiveling desk / table lamp by Michael Powolny at Loetz, Bohemia, 1910s. Large double glass orange shade with three purple/black applications. Superb swiveling chiseled bronze base. ...

Art Deco ceramic table lamp with fabric shade vienna around 1920s Brass parts polished and stove enameled ceramic original condition The shade is replaced ( new )

American Mushroom Dome Lamp by Crown Creative. A simple fun toylike acrylic lamp in American Flag colors. Condition: some tiny stable stress crackling around the hole for finial (d...

A pair of iridescent ceramic table lamps made by Sunset Lamp Corporation. Vases shine in oil pinks, purples and turquoise. Finished with a craquelure ...

A stunning Mezzachimera table lamp, designed by Vico Magistretti for Artemide. An avant-garde lamp crafted from methacrylate, illuminated, creating a beautiful aesthetic. Art and des...

Magnificent! Brass & Walnut Mid Century Modern Table Lamp By Laurel Lamp Company Circa 1957 Attributed to Designer Richard Barr Wow! This is an incredible example of the iconic M...

Gae Aulenti for Kartell, ‘King Sun’ lamp, Perspex, enameled aluminum, Italy, 1967 This ‘King Sun’ lighting object is created by Gae Aulenti for Kartell in 1967. The lamp was design...

This adjustable table lamp was produced in former Czechoslovakis during the 1970s. It features an aluminium lampshade, a chrome plated arm and iron base. The socket requires standard...

Vintage Art Deco Japanese Figural Green Porcelain Man & Women Table Lamp - Pair. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 36" H (to finial) x 25" H (to light socket) x 6.5" W x 6.5" D...

Circa 1970. We offer this Murano table lamp. Made in transparent Murano glass . Great vintage condition.

Lovely Mid-Century Modern Table Lamp in Brass, 1950s The lamp needs 1 x E14 / E15 Edison screw fit bulb, is wired, and in working condition. It runs both on 110 / 230 volt. Very el...

High quality Maison Jansen style table lamp in polished brass and brushed steel, circa 1980s. This vintage design piece would fit within the Hollywood Regency, Brutalist and Mid-Cent...

Designer V.H. Woolums Manufacturer V.H. Woolums ________________________________________ Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life...

Antique Chinese bronze vessels mounted as lamps, a pair Offered for sale is a pair of antique Chinese bronze vessels mounted as lamps. ...

Beautiful large-sized table lamp in the shape of a pineapple. An impressive piece of Mid-Century Modern style, made in Italy during the 1970s. The body is crafted from white Murano g...

Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp by Elio Martinelli, 1970s - Vintage table lamp with a distinctive Travertine foot - Designed by Elio Martinelli - Produced in Italy - It has the chara...

Art nouveau lamp circa 1910. Brass and copper base. Iridescent glass tulip signed Quezal. In perfect condition and electrified. Total height: 38.5 cm Base diameter: 15.5 cm Width: 30 cm Quezal Art Glass Quezal Art Glass – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2003 By Malcolm Mac Neil Some of the most beautiful and alluring art glass made in America during the early part of the 20th Century was made by the Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company. Often in the shape of blossoming lilies with brilliant gold interiors and colorfully decorated with floral and other motifs inspired by nature, Quezal art glass ranks right alongside the iridescent glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Frederick Carder. Quezal artisans created an extensive range of decorative and useful items, including vases, compotes, finger bowls, open salts, candle holders, and shades for lighting fixtures, which are equivalent in terms of beauty and quality of craftsmanship to Tiffany’s Favrile and Carder’s Aurene glass. In recent years, glass collectors have discovered anew the special charms and appeal of Quezal art glass, and collector desirability for this lovely glassware has increased dramatically. The Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company was incorporated a century ago, on March 27, 1902. It was founded by Martin Bach, Sr., Thomas Johnson, Nicholas Bach, Lena Scholtz, and Adolph Demuth. The factory was located on the corner of Fresh Pond Road and Metropolitan Avenue in Maspeth, Queens, New York. In October 1902, the trademark “Quezal” was successfully registered. By 1904, roughly fifty glassworkers were employed at the works. Martin Bach, Sr. was the president, proprietor, and guiding force behind this successful company. Born in 1862 in Alsace-Lorraine to German parents, he emigrated to the United States in 1891. Before his emigration, Bach worked in Saint-Louis, France, at the Saint-Louis Glass Factory. After Bach arrived in this country, he was hired by Louis C. Tiffany as the latter’s first batch-mixer or chemist at the newly established Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, in Corona, Queens. After a period of about eight years, Bach left Tiffany and established his own glassworks. By this time, Bach had already started his small family. He and his German-born wife, Anne-Marie Geisser, whom he married in the fall of 1889, in Paris, France, had three children. Two daughters, Jennie and Louise, were born in France and a son, Martin, Jr., was born in Corona. Bach was assisted by Thomas Johnson, an English immigrant, and Maurice Kelly, a native of Corona, both of whom were gaffers or master glassblowers. Johnson and Kelly helped pave the way for Quezal’s early accomplishments and later recognition. Thomas Johnson, like Bach, was a founding member and also previously employed by Louis C. Tiffany. Johnson’s association with Quezal, however, was relatively short lived. Around 1907, Johnson left for Somerville, Massachusetts, where he became involved in making Kew Blas glass, under William S. Blake at the Union Glass Company. Maurice Kelly’s tenure with Quezal was also brief. Kelly worked at Quezal from January 1902 until July 1904, but by November 1904, he was making Favrile glass at Tiffany Furnaces, where he would happily remain until 1918. To this day, the belief still exists that there once existed a man named Quezal, who worked for Louis C. Tiffany, and it is after him that Quezal glass is named. In truth, however, the founders of the Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company named the company and its products after one of the world’s most beautiful birds, the elusive and rare quetzal, which dwells in the treetops of the remote tropical forests of Central America. A rare company promotional brochure provides a vivid description of the quetzal: Of all the birds of the America’s, it is the most gorgeous. No more splendid sight is to be seen in all the world than a quezal, flying like a darting flame through the depths of a Central American forest. Its back is of a brilliant metallic green, so vivid it shines even in the twilight of the woods like a great emerald and its breast is a crimson so deep and bright that every motion of the wonderful creature is a flashing of rubies among the trees and giant creepers. It bears a true golden crown upon its head – a helmet of bright yellow and green, shaped just as the helmet of old Aztec kings were shaped. Its tail is composed of lacelike plumes, extending more than two and one-half feet beyond its body. The quezal was certainly an appropriate designation for the company’s resplendent glassware. One of the most prized characteristics of Quezal art glass is the shimmering and dazzling brilliance reflected in the iridescent surfaces on the interior as well as exterior of the glass. The radiant rainbow colors in metallic hues, including gold, purple, blue, green, and pink, to name only a few, were certainly inspired by the quetzal and its feathers. Not surprisingly, lustrous feathers, in shades of opal, gold, emerald, and blue, are among the most common decorative motifs encountered on Quezal glass. The enduring hallmark of Quezal art glass is its unique expression of the Art Nouveau style, based on organic shapes and naturalistic motifs coupled with technical perfection in the execution. Vases, compotes, drinking vessels, and shades for lighting fixtures were often fashioned to resemble flowers such as crocuses, tulips, calla lilies, casablanca lilies, and jack-in-the-pulpits. Variously colored inlaid threads of glass, pulled and twisted by hooks, simulate naturalistic floral and leaf patterns, lily pads, clover leafs, and vines. Opal, gold, and green colors prevail and the glass is generally opaque. Red is the rarest color of all. Compared with Tiffany’s Favrile glass, the crisp, vivid, and colorful decoration of Quezal art glass is distinctively precise, symmetrical, and restrained. Other Quezal wares recall shapes and styles favored in ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, as well as the Italian Renaissance and the Georgian period in England. This is especially true of classic-shaped vases and bowls of translucent amber glass, which have a single surface color such as iridescent gold or blue. Still, others were inspired by traditional Chinese and Japanese forms. The Gorham Manufacturing Company in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Alvin Silver Manufacturing Company in Sag Harbor, Long Island, purchased Quezal art glass, which they in turn embellished in their shops with silver overlay decoration in the fashionable Art Nouveau style and later resold. Gorham’s silver overlay designs mostly include stylized floral motifs. Alvin’s silver designs are wonderfully organic. One sumptuous design is of a group of sinuous iris blossoms with carefully articulated petals surrounded by attenuated meandering vines. Collectors should note that not all silver-deposit pieces are marked with a maker’s mark since the silversmith had to be quite careful not to damage the glass underneath. A rare 1907 retail catalog survives from Bailey, Banks, and Biddle Company, a luxury goods retailer in Philadelphia, which reveals original retail prices of Quezal art glass. A surprising revelation provided by this catalog is that Quezal art glass was nearly twice as expensive as comparable French imported glass made by such renowned firms as Gallé and Daum. Hock glasses, a stemmed glass used primarily for drinking German white wine, were sold by the dozen and retailed between $50 and $75. Fingerbowls were also sold by the dozen and retailed between $50 and $100. These high retail prices were nearly the same as those charged for Tiffany’s Favrile glass, and suggest Quezal art glass was also marketed towards the high-end or luxury market. Electricity was a brand new invention in the late 1800s and American glass manufacturers developed novel approaches for concealing the electric light bulb, which was rather harsh to the eye and perhaps unflattering to the domestic interior. Tiffany, Steuben, and Quezal responded to this need with the most extraordinary and beautiful art-glass shades, all of which were  hand-made and exquisitely fashioned. Many other companies also made art glass shades for table and floor lamps, electroliers, hallway fixtures, and wall sconces, but it was Quezal that excelled in this area and was the most prolific. Quezal art glass shades were available in an infinite variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and decorations. Some shades are formed and decorated as lilies while others are bell-shaped and have ribbed or textured decoration. Rims are usually plain but sometimes are notched or ruffled. Common motifs include feather or hooked feather, leaf and vine, applied flowers, drape, fishnet, King Tut, and spider webbing. The workmanship shown on most Quezal shades...

Antique French Empire Regency Rams Head Small Bronze Column Table Lamps with Adjustable Height Finials - a Pair. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 25.5"- 27.5" H (to finial) x...

Art Deco Table lamp with original opal glass shade vienna around 1920s Brass polished and stove enameled Original opal glass shade

Large Table Lamp Model 625, Designed by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli Luce, Circa 1970s This stunning table lamp features a painted metal base that supports three light sources, cro...

A beautiful pair of "drop" table lamps in full brass paired with wooden slate shades. The wooden slates material is quite similar to rattan. These lamps were designed by Mauri Almar...

This table lamp was produced in former Czechoslovakis during the 1970s. It features an aluminium lampshade, a chrome plated arm and iron base. The socket requires standard E27/E26 li...

Art Deco revival table light executed with column rod in fluted brass and 3 rings up towards its socket. It comes mounted with a new fluted white Danish shade and has an on/off switc...

Polished gilt-brass nautilus lamp, circa 1960-1979, France. Newly wired for use within the USA with medium-base (Edison) socket. Includes rectangul...

A pair of circa 1940's French glazed porcelain table lamps in brown tones with gilt bronze base. Measurements: Height of body: 17" Height to shade rest: 28" Diameter (base): 9"

Carlo Nason.. Pagoda lamps…Four tier hand blown lamps with abstract patterns of swirls within glass that is white and clear .. The pair had been taken apart.. cleaned ..restored with...

With decoration featuring flowers from the garden, birds, butterflies and lady bugs; on a gilt base. Fitted with two brass light sockets and adjusta...

Lovely pair of vintage San de Boeuf Oxblood flambe porcelain table lamps. No chips or breaks. Newly wired, clear cord, all new brass hardware, 3 way sockets. Dimensions: 26 H to top ...

Rare table lamp by Louis Poulsen, designed by Bent Gantzel-Boysen from the 60s. A rare collector's item. A compact travel light, which can be folded completely. The inconspicuous sq...

La Borne potters Original french handmade ceramic table lamp realised circa 1970 Grey ceramic glaze color Electrical system is new ...

Tiny nickel-plated table or bedside lamp. Polished, rewired: 40W, E25-E27 bulb US plug adapter included.

California Pottery Ballerina TV lamp from the 1950's by the Sierra Columbia Pottery Company of Pasadena. Glazed pottery ballerina sits atop a lime pottery pla...

This exquisite acid-etched table lamp, signed by Handel and crafted in America circa 1910, is a superb example of early 20th-century decorative arts. The lamp features a beautifully ...

A rare table lamp, model 1646, produced by Steneby Hemslöjdsförening in Dals Långed, Sweden, in the 1940s. Crafted from solid beech with a sculptural form, it draws inspiration from ...

MONUMENTAL! GERALD THURSTON FOR LIGHTOLIER! SAUCER SWING ARM LAMP One of the Rarest Thurston Designs! BRASS & METAL Incredible Construction! Circa 1948 APPROX. DIMENSIONS: HEIG...

Stylish bright green Italian mid-century modern desk or table lamp by Stilux with adjustable shade and push type button at the base. This superb design is highlighted by brass and si...

The table lamp model M5, designed by Joseph-André Motte and manufactured by Disderot in France in 1960, stands as an iconic representation of mid-century modern design. Crafted with ...

Late 20th century heavy cut glass Venetian hand cut and brass decorated details pair table lamps. Each lamp features a very deep hand cut crystal in an architectural squared column s...

A brass and white fabric table lamp designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1920s. Dimensions of Lamp with Shade (inches): 17.5“ H x 7“ Diameter Bulb Specifications: E-26 STD Number o...

ONE OF TWO AVAILABLE Designed and manufactured in Belgium in the 1960s by the acclaimed lighting manufacturer S.A. Boulanger this exquisite table lamps oozes with luxurious elegance...

A red and black cylindrical table or side lamp from the 1950s, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Atelier Fornasetti, Milan, Italy. Crafted from metal and brass, the lamp features lith...

Table lamp Lampe Gras No. 201 designed by Bernard-Albin Gras. Manufactured by Gras (France), circa 1930. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, pr...

This Art Deco table lamp, crafted in Germany in the 1950s, showcases a striking design influenced by Bauhaus aesthetics. Made from brass and hard plastic, it utilizes materials sourc...

Elegant mid-century table lamp, circa 1970, Italy. Turned wood, straw shade, brass details. One E27 bulb . Dimensions: 61 cm height, diameter: 37 cm All pu...

Bitossi by Aldo Londi for Bergboms – Ceramic Table Lamp, Italy, c. 1970s An elegant ceramic table lamp designed by Aldo Londi for Bitossi, produced in Italy in the 1970s for the Swe...

French decorative ceramic lamp with hand-painted horse by Roger Capron (circa 1950s). This is Capron's 'Coupe n°2 lamp' which is signed in the interior of the vertical base. A rare piece indeed, hand-painted with a stylised horse in his inimitable style. The ceramic is in fair overall condition showing some fading and marks commensurate with age and usage. This is an exceptional piece for admirers of the works of master ceramicist, Roger Capron. Signed: 'Capron Vallauris'. Lampshade shown in photos is 30 cm (11.8") in diameter and will be included when requested. Currently wired for usage in the UK but you can have it adapted to your location. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request a video can be provided. About the Artist: The mid-century ceramic art of Roger Capron (1922-2006) embodied the vibrant spirit and verve of Vallauris and the French Côte d'Azur. He took over an abandoned pottery studio at the age of 24 in Vallauris, where he worked with Robert Picault and then Jean Derval. Capron’s ceramic workshop, known as "l'Atelier Callis", contributed to the renaissance of ceramics in Vallauris and at its peak employed over 120 ceramicists. He eventually expanded his production of vases, pitchers and other functional wares to include coffee tables with hand glazed tiles, lamp bases, wall plaques and other interior decor objects along with sculptural statues...

A beautiful pair of vintage table lamps by Boulanger, made in Belgium and dating from around the 1970’s. They are of lovely quality and have an absolutely gorgeous design. They are ...

Vintage Italian hand-carved Alabaster accent or table lamp features baluster urn form with a wreath of leaves (most probably acanthus leaves) accentuating the top of the urn. The bo...

This stunning Art Deco-style lamp brings timeless elegance to any space. It features a graceful nude woman balancing on her tiptoes, stretching backward as she lifts a frosted glass ...

Large crow foot lamp by Stürzenhofecker and Becker for Gebrüder Cosack. Red Enameled hood-like shade, curved brass stem with brass pivot, black enameled...