Signed Ceramic Lamps by Arpad Rosti

Chinese style ceramic lamp, mauve glazed, with fan and flower shaped frames containing genre and landscape scenes.

Portuguese glazed ceramic table lamp enhanced with floral motif on both sides.

Pair of Mod 1970s style white ceramic lamps, cylindrical with impressed patterns and a white Blanc de Chine glaze.

Circular Gilded Ceramic Figural Table Lamp, apparently unmarked. Provenance: From an Upper East side collection.

Pair of Versace Style Ceramic Vases Mounted as Lamps, each hand-painted with polychrome Roman soldiers in chariots on a black ground, Greek key borders above and below with gilt acce...

Pair of vintage brass and beige ceramic table lamp. Dealer: S138XX

organic form sculptural glazed ceramic lamp by Arpad Rosti. Dark blue-green and grey in color. Best known for his remarkably inventive lamps, trays and vessels designed in organic, free form shapes, Arpad Rosti was a highly versatile artist, equally at home in both the ceramics and enameling fields. While most of his work was done in either clay or metal, in the late 1940s he also ventured into furniture design when he produced a group of tables in treated wood, mosaic, copper, and glass. His one-of-a-kind furniture was exhibited in 1949 at the Chinese Gallery in New York and written up in the New York Times. As further evidence of his wide-ranging talents, in 1972 he was commissioned to produce a stained glass window for a residence in North Caldwell, New Jersey which New York Times critic Joan Cook described as “a miracle of color and light.” Born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1909, Rosti studied architecture at the School of Industrial Arts in Budapest. In 1940, he moved with his wife Ilona to the United States and settled in New York where he became a naturalized citizen in 1945. In 1947 his work was featured in an exhibition organized by the Craftsmen’s Equity and presented at the Barbizon-Plaza Galleries in New York. The organization, of which he was President, aimed to “put craft on a business basis without sacrificing the individuality inherent in handmade articles.” Throughout the 1950s Rosti’s work was regularly chosen for the prestigious National Ceramic Exhibitions at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (now known as the Everson Museum). It was included in seven of these exhibitions between 1946 and 1958 and in 1947 Rosti’s work was singled out by the New York Times critic Edward Alden...

This unusual pair of Mid-Century Modern sensual grey pebble glazed ceramic torso lamps are very sculptural. They were studio made by Arpad and Ilonka Rosti in their NYC studio in the...

Lovely pair of pink "rosti" glass and brass lamps. These glistening beauties are really unique and add a designer touch to a fine home!

Blue ceramic table lamp

A 1950 ceramic table

Wonderful chic and simple design by Jean Marais, France 1960's in black ceramic with elongated neck and bulb base, trimmed with brass at bottom. Rewired with NEW silk twisted cable....