Chinese Export Table Lamps
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
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Item type: Antique and Vintage
Style: Chinese Export
Antique Chinese Orange and White Dragon Motif Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a round, luster porcelain vase with an orange and gold hexagonal patterned ground against two white cartouches depicting dra...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese Reticulated White Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese-style white filigree porcelain table lamp with floral design and black round base.
Category
20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Export Crackle Ware Vase Lamps on Carved Wood Bases
Located in New York, NY
Pair of 19th century Chinese Export crackle ware vase lamps on carved hardwood square bases. Entirely hand decorated, each slightly different from the other.
The lamps retain origin...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Hardwood, Ceramic
Large Chinoiserie Faux Cinnabar Lacquer Vase Lamp
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large Chinoiserie faux
Cinnabar lacquer vase lamp
Mid 20th century.
Baluster-shaped vase cast in plaster in great detail
Shaped panels depic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Pottery
Pair of 19th Century Cloisonné Lamps
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is a lovely pair of cloisonné turquoise lamps painted overall with colorful figures and images, situated on pierced rosewood bases, 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Pair 19th Century Chinese Rose Medallion Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
Pair 19th century Chinese Rose medallion / Cantonese spill vases, each with the classical Green ground, wonderful floral and foliate decorati...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Figurative Scene Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a white and blue baluster-shaped porcelain vase depicting a mother and children playing outside,...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of Vintage Chinese Fu Dog Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
A wonderful pair of vintage Chinese Foo dog statues converted into small table lamps. These dog lamps were the property of Valley Castle in Cornwall Connecticut.
Fu dogs are actual...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Black Ceramic Table Lamp with Floral and Bird Design
Located in Savannah, GA
Chinese Export table lamp made from a graceful vase decorated with colorful birds, dogwood branches and fruit on an orange peel surface. The hardware is brass and the vase is perched...
Category
1930s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Chinese Porcelain Hand Painted Porcelain Lamp
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A hand painted Chinese porcelain lamps with an imperial yellow background. The white porcelain with cartouches of aristocratic women in a floral background with intricately detailed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Vintage Chinese White Porcelain Jar Table Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Chinese table lamp made from a white porcelain urn painted with a floral red roses design around mounted on a brown wooden base and fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Champlevé or Cloisonné Lamps
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of antique Chinese champlevé or cloisonné lamps.
Lovely pair of antique Chinese bronze champlevé or cloisonné table lamps. Offered champleve or cloisonne lamps are executed in ...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Ceramic Cream, Orange, and Green Fish Motif Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a porcelain vase intricately painted with orange fish swimming amidst green plant life framed by colorful geometric bands ab...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Metal
Sang De Boeuf, Ormolu Mounted Vase, by Rookwood 1936, Now as a Lamp, Dark Glaze
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sang de Boeuf, Ormolu Mounted Vase, by Rookwood Pottery 1936, now as a Lamp, Light Glaze
Beautiful glazed vase raised on four ormolu elegant paw feet, attributed to E.F. Caldwell (O...
Category
1930s American Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Chinese Orange and Gold Bouquet Design Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a round, orange, luster porcelain vase with with a gold floral bouquet design, mounted on a brown wooden base and fitted wit...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Antique Chinese Republic Era Ornately Hand-Painted Vase or Table Lamp Base
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique and intricately hand-painted vase is signed on the base, but we were unable to identify the maker, but originates from China and dates to approximately 1920 and done in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair 19th Century Rose Medallion Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of 19th Century Chinese Cantonese vases / lamps. Each with classical green ground, wonderful exotic floral decoration, butterflies and birds.
The vases can be co...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Off-White Orange and Pink Floral Motif Porcelain Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of similar Chinese porcelain table lamps made from off-white, urn-shaped vases with pink, orange and green florals, berries, leaves and snap dragons with wooden bases and brass ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese White Porcelain Ginger Jar Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese style (19th Century) white porcelain ginger jar form lamp with foliate & bird details mounted on a round wood base.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Pair Chinese Cloisonné Vases / Lamps, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative pair of late 19th century Chinese cloisonné enamel vases / lamps. Each having wonderful turquoise ground and exotic flowers, with gilded ormolu mounts.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Pair of Chinese Off-White Floral and Bamboo Design Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese porcelain table lamps made from off-white, urn-shaped vases decorated with a winding natural scene of flowers and bamboo growing from behind a decorative gate mounted...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Metal
Chinese White and Floral Column Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese white porcelain table lamp made from a column-shaped vase painted with a crane alongside a blooming pink peony, a wooden base, and brass hardware.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
19th Century Chinese Powder Blue Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A striking 19th century Chinese power blue vase / lamp with French gilded ormolu mounts to the top and plinth base.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large Pair 19th Century Rose Medallion Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century Chinese Rose medallion vases / lamps. Each with wonderful bold classical Cantonese birds, flower, butterflies in Green, white and pink, inset...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Pink Floral and Duck Design Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese pink ceramic table lamp made from a baluster-shaped vase decorated with ducks in natural surroundings emphasized with linework and orange dragonflies, on a wooden base with b...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Metal
Famille Noir Vases as Table Lamps - Pair Available
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
These are very decorative Famille Noir vases with colorful flowers and leaves painted overall on a black background, situated on pierced rosewood bas...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Pair of Chinese Abacus Lamps
By ABCO
Located in San Francisco, CA
Wonderful pair of mid century Chinese Abacus Lamps made in Honk Kong.
Category
1970s Hong Kong Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Wood
19th Century Chinese Famille Noure Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative 19th Century Chinese Famille Noure lidded vase with classical gilded floral and motif decoration to the whole. Mounted with gilded ormolu base and light fitting.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Famille Verte Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 18th century style Chinese Famille verte vase / lamp. Having bold classical Chinese scenes of courtiers under pagoda buildings and in gardens playing games and on...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Century Chinese Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative pair of 20th Century Chinese porcelain vases / lamps.
Each with blue coloured classical motif decoration boarders and Deer head handles, inset hand painted panels ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Black Tea-Caddy Table Lamp
Located in Plainview, NY
This beautiful black tea-caddy Chinese lamp in a cylindric shape features fine etching and design. The base depicts a scene of two women talking and lounging...
Category
1970s Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Chinese Lamp
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A porcelain ormolu-mounted
Chinese export style vase
Now mounted as a lamp
Early 20th century, probably Samson
The vase is in the form of a meiping
In the Chinese export famil...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Pink Floral and Crane Design Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese pink porcelain table lamp made from a baluster-shaped vase decorated with cranes and sparrows in natural surroundings emphasized with li...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese Style Porcelain Imari Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese style porcelain table lamp with Imari style floral decoration on round wood base.
Category
20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Pair 19th Rose Medallion Ormolu Mounted Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A wonderful quality pair of mid 19th century Chinese Cantonese / Rose medallion vases / lamps, each with bold colours, exotic flowers, butterflies and motifs. Inset painted panels de...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Famille Noire Porcelain Vase Lamp
Located in London, GB
A late 19th century famille noire porcelain vase, decorated with butterflies and abundant fruit trees in polychrome glazes. Now mounted as a table lamp with hand-turned giltwood base...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Gaming Scene Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese white and blue porcelain table lamp made from an urn-shaped vase depicting a group of figures around a game table under a tree, ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese White Figurative Scene Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a white porcelain urn painted with a scene of children playing in orange, pink, and red, mounted on a brown wooden base and ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair Chinese Celadon Porcelain Vases / Lamps, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative pair of late 19th century Chinese Celadon porcelain two handled vases, each with embossed classical motif decoration. Mounted on faux Sienna marble plinths and wire...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Mid-Century Chinese Wooden Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Vintage mid-century Chinese style wood lamp with fretwork design carving.
Category
20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Wood
Pair of Chinese Black and Floral Motif Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese black ceramic table lamps made from baluster-shaped vases decorated with birds amid blooming florals in pinks, yellows and blues, and wooden bases.
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of William ‘Billy’ Haines Attributed Lamps
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a superb pair of impressive lamps incorporating Chinese Crackle Glaze Pale Celadon Vases on high ivory lacquered wood plinths, a trade mark of Billy Haines designs. The typical Haines design electrical switch...
Category
1950s North American Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Chinese Orange and Metallic Bamboo Design Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a round, orange, luster porcelain, lidded vase with a metallic bamboo design, mounted on a brown wooden base and fitted with...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of Chinese Celadon Porcelain Vases / Lamps, circa 1920
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative pair of 18th century style Chinese Celadon porcelain two handled vases / lamps, raised on carved pierced hardwood stands, circa 1920.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Crackleware Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive and decorative 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose crackelware vase / lamp. Having classical motif bronzed decoration, leaf and berry handles. Hand painted scenes dep...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White Floral Patterned Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese white ceramic table lamp made from a bulbous vase decorated with colorful florals, mounted on a wooden base and fitted with brass hardwar...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
19th Century Porcelain Dragon Vase Lamp
Located in London, GB
A late 19th century baluster form vase, the body decorated with a polychrome dragon upon a green glazed ground. Now mounted as a lamp and set upon a turned giltwood base.
Dimensio...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Antique Chinese Orange and White Cartouche Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a round, luster ceramic vase with an orange and gold hexagonal patterned ground against two white cartouches depicting natur...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of Chinese Blue Tole Palm Tree and Man Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese light blue tole table lamps depicting a man holding a fan sitting in the shade of a palm tree. (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese Style Black Iron Filigree Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese style (19/20th Century) tall black iron filigree design tiered table lamp on a round base.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Iron, Wrought Iron
Chinese Off-White and Blue Figurative Scene Stoneware Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) table lamp made from an off-white and blue stoneware vase with carved floral bands, two small decorative handles, and a scene depicting two women ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of 19th Century Rose Medallion Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century Chinese Rose medallion vases, each with gilded mythical serpent handles on either side, hand painted inset hand painted panels of exotic birds a...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Bronze Urn as Lamp
Located in Norwood, NJ
19th century Chinese bronze urn as lamp. Decorated with florals and dragon in high relief. Surmounted by two handles depicting phoenix...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Dark Blue and Red Cherry Blossom Tree Motif Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese porcelain table lamp made from a richly colored dark blue vase with a red, pink and white budding cherry blossom tree climbing up its form, a wo...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Unusual Ceramic Collage Lamp
Located in London, GB
A most unusual table lamp, the body made up from a collage of broken porcelain fragments, mostly late eighteenth century Chinese Export.
Dimensions...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Chinese Teal Cylindrical Patterned Cloisonne Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Chinese cylindrical table lamp made from a teal and gold-patterned cloisonne vase painted with floral arrangements and fruit bowls with a brown wooden...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass, Enamel
19th Century Chinese Sang de Bouf Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A wonderful 19th Century Chinese Sang de Bouf vase, having French gilded ormolu scrolling foliate swag and drape mounts, raised on an ormolu plinth base.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Late 19th Century Famille Noire Porcelain Vase
Located in London, GB
A late 19th century bronze vase, with finely cast decoration and enamelled inlay, mounted as a lamp with hand-turned water gilded base.
Dimensions refer to bronze vase and base on...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Chinese Export table lamps for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export table lamps for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage table lamps created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include lighting, asian art and furniture, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export table lamps made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original table lamps, popular names associated with this style include The Marbro Lamp Company, Capodimonte, Chapman Manufacturing Company, and Imari Porcelain. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for table lamps differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $200 and tops out at $24,680 while the average work can sell for $2,400.
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