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
Japanese Vase with Black Background in the Style of Chinese Famille Verte
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Japanese Vase with Black Background in the Style of Chinese Famille Verte. Well decorated with woman in a garden. No chips, cracks or repairs, drilled for electricity
21" h to socke...
Category
20th Century Japanese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Table Lamp Oriental Colors 19th Century, China
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp oriental colors 19th century, China. A table lamp made during the 19th century in China. Multicolored with gilded details.
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Large 19th Century Chinese Rose Medallion / Canton Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th century Chinese Cantonese / rose medallion vase / lamp. Having gilded dog of faux handles and serpents, classical green ground decoration with inset painted ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Samson, Famille Verte Style Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century Samson, famille verte style lidded vase / lamp, having wonderful gilded ormolu scrolling foliate and beeded decoration. The vase having a green folia...
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Chinese Famille Verte Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th century Chinese Famille Verte vase/lamp. Having classical green motif and symbol decoration, mythical dog of faux handles either side. Mounted on a gilded wo...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Lovely Decorative Chinese Vase Converted into a Table Lamp Decorative Piece
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely vintage Chinese vase converted into a lamp
A very good looking and well-made lamp, exceptionally decorative and I think the only one...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Porcelain Vase Custom Mounted as a Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Japanese vase newly custom mounted as a lamp. Painted in a Chinese style with multicolored floral and bird motifs against a vibrant pink background now custom mounted as lamp...
Category
1910s Japanese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain, Silk, Lucite
Large 19th Century Rose Medallion Vase or Lamp, Ormolu Mounted
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century Chinese rose medallion / canton vase / lamp, having wonderful gilded ormolu scrolling foliate Rococo style mounts with putti seated on either side. The...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Chinese Bronze Vase with Dragons Now Mounted as a Lamp
Located in London, GB
A Chinese bronze vase featured applied decoration of four dragons chasing the flaming pearl. Now mounted as a lamp.
Height of vase: 16½ in (42 cm) including base, excluding electr...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Lamp Bases
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of Chinese Export porcelain lamp bases mounted in French Louis XVI style bronze dore.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Brass Asian Style Table Lamp with Birds, Dragons and Bamboo Detail
Located in Toledo, OH
A beautiful brass table lamp. This lovely Asian inspired lamp features birds, bamboo and floral detail with dragon form handles. The shade is not included. The dimensions are 32.5" H...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Pair of Late 19th Century Chinese Crackle-Ware Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A pair of late 19th century Chinese crackle-ware vases/lamps. Each with various battle scenes with warriors on horseback, mounted with wonderful gilded ormolu lids and bases.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Importance Chinese Lamp from the Beginning of the 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Importance Chinese lamp from the beginning of the 20th century mounted on gold gilt bronze.
Measures: Height 1m10.
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Gilt Bronze Mounted Chinese Canton Famille Rose Porcelain Lamps
Located in London, GB
These elegant lamps are crafted from Chinese Canton famille rose porcelain and mounted with French gilt bronze (ormolu). The lamps featur...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century Rose Medallion Ormolu Mounted Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of Chinese Cantonese / rose medallion bellied vases / lamps. Each with wonderful gilded ormolu scrolling foliate mounts top and bottom. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Early 19th Century Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Porcelain Jars as Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of Chinese Export Rose Mandarin porcelain jars with lids as lamps. All four side have painted panels with people in landscapes on orange and gilt patterned background. A pair of gold lizards at the neck. Jars have been set on rectangular wooden bases, early 19th century, China
With custom pleated and trimmed shades
Measures: Base is 8.5" L x 7" W
Chinese lidded jars...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Crackelware Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 19th century Chinese crackleware vases / lamps. Each with oriental style ormolu mounts to the top and bottom. Cla...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Chinese Celadon Porcelain Table Lamp on a Teak Base
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese style (19th Century) celadon porcelain lamp with blue figural scene and mounted on a round teak base and filigree cover.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain, Teak
Turquoise Ceramic Vase as Lamp
Located in New York, NY
With craquelure finish, exaggerated long neck and silvered wood base. Height to top of vase is 24".
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Pair of Imari Porcelaine Lamp Mounted Gilt Bronze
Located in Marseille, FR
19th century pair of porcelain lamp from Imari. Frame gilt bronze decorations of metal polychrome flowers.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese 19th Century Sang Du Bouf Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Chinese Sang du Bouf porcelain vase / lamp. Having gilded ormolu mounts.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Lamp Base
Located in Dallas, TX
A Chinese export porcelain lamp base with French, Louis XVI style bronze doré mountings.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
19th Century Chinese Blue Ground Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An unusual 19th century Chinese blue ground porcelain vase or lamp. Having wonderful mythical dragons amongst flowers and classical motifs.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Lamp
Located in Stockton, NJ
A blue and white motif Chinese export vase, now as lamp. Interesting raised dragon detail. Distress painted base. Two sockets. Shade for display purposes only. Vase measures 19"H.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Bronze Vase 19th Century Mounted as a Table Lamp
Located in Miami, FL
The cloisonné enamel bronze vase is mounted in table lamp.
The quality of the piece is very interesting as an object by itself.
The shape is unu...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Vases Now Custom Mounted as Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair Antique Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Vases now mounted as lamps on custom gilt wood bases and with custom hand smocked cream colored silk shades trimmed in pink ribbon and antiq...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Silk, Porcelain, Wood
Pair of Chinese Pink & Blue 'Famille Rose' Lamps with Birds and Flowers
Located in London, GB
Pair of baluster form lamps in the floral Famille Rose palette, hand decorated in polychromes with foliates and birds.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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 Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large Pair of Canton / Rose Medalion Chinese Vases / Lamps, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of large 19th century Chinese Canton vases / lamps. Each with a green ground with flowers, foliage, butterflies and birds surr...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Chrysanthemum Vase, Now a Fine Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very lovely and great quality Chinese porcelain lamp. Signature not available due to
conversion to lamp- however the lamp was owned by a great Oriental Art Collector,
who resided i...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Asian Pictorial Blue and White, With 8 Figures, Table Lamp
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An Asian pictorial blue and white table lamp, the lamp is done in a typical blue on white background, there are eight different figures around the baluster shaped base, there are bat...
Category
Early 20th Century Central Asian Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Sang De Boeuf Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative 19th century Chinese sang de boeuf baluster vase, converted to a lamp. Mounted on a carved hardwood stand.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Rose Medallion, Canton Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An impressive pair of 19th Century Chinese cantonese, rose medallion vases or lamps. Having panels of classical oriental scenes, also flowers, birds and butterflies amongst a green b...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Blue & Orange Colour Chinese Lamps Hand Decorated with Court Scenes
Located in London, GB
Pair of baluster form lamps, hand decorated with court scenes in polychrome on wood bases.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th C Chinese Glazed Ceramic Lamp
Located in Charleston, SC
This earth-toned ceramic lamp features a porcelain Chinese dragon flying through clouds. Additionally, it features a lace cuff surrounding the neck with dogwoods. The base is brass w...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Fine Pair of Chinese Baluster Form Lamps
Located in London, GB
Fine pair of baluster form lamps hand decorated in polychromes with court scenes, fitted with Rococo gilt bronze bases.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Lovely Vintage Pair of Famille Rose Lamps
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Lovely pair of Famille Rose Chinese lamps with new black silk bell shaped shades.
Famille rose is an 18th century Chinese porcelain, characterized by its pink-colored enamel.
Black s...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Late Qing Dynasty Blue and White Baluster Vase Table Lamp
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A beautiful Chinese late Qing dynasty (1636 - 1912) ribbed baluster form vase of large scale (17.75" x 12") having hand-painted underglaze blue 'Canton' variant pattern of architectu...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Wire
Pair Rose Medallion vases / lamps, 19th Century.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th Century Chinese Canton / Rose medallion vases / lamps. Each with wonderful bold classical greens and pinks, pairs of gilded Foo dog handles. The grou...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Rose Ormolu Mounted Rose Medallion Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century Chinese rose medallion Cantonese vase / lamp, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts to the top and base. Hand painted classical oriental scenes, depi...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Asian Ornate Tooled Leather Over Tole Tea Canisters Mounted as Lamps
Located in Germantown, MD
Pair of Asian decorated Tooled Leather Over Tole Tea Canisters Mounted as Lamps in great vintage condition.
8.5" in diameter and stand 25" tall to the top of the licht bulb socket.
Category
20th Century East Asian Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Antique Samson French Porcelain Vase, Chinese Armorial Crest Table Lamp
By Samson & Cie
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Samson French porcelain vase - Chinese armorial crest table lamp. Includes harp and finial.
Additional information:
Materials: Porcelain
...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose vase, having a yellow ground with floral decoration. An inset hand painted panel depic...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
1920s Heavily Carved Asian Jade Table Lamp
Located in Garnerville, NY
Asian carved jade/nephrite bird table lamp. Circa 1920. The interior portion lights up separately from the top two lights. Pierced carved Rosewood base ending with a brass filigree f...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Jade, Brass
Mid-Century Chinese Abacus / Suanpan Lamp, circa 1950
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Old vintage Chinese abacus / Suanpan / chinese calculator from the 50s/60s, mounted as a lamp.
Shade with raised corners, pagoda style, reminis...
Category
1950s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Small 19th Century Chinese Export Urn Converted to a Modern Lamp
Located in Middleburg, VA
Small 19th century Chinese export urn converted to a lamp.
Measures: 19” H 5.5” W 4” D.
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese 19th Century Powder Blue Vase/Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very stylish 19th century Chinese powder blue vase / lamp, having the light blue ground with gilded leaf decoration, inset painted panels one depict...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinoiserie Style Figural Pottery Attendant Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinoiserie Style Figural Pottery Attendant Lamp
1960s
Height: 26 in Width: 8 in Depth: 8 in
Revel in the exotic allure of this Chinoiserie style figu...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Pottery, Hardwood
Monumentally Large Impressive Pair of Celadon Chinese Table Lamps
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Palacial table lamps having vase shaped light celadon colored porcelain bases on mahogany stands with lovely raised patterns. One lamp has cranes and flowers, the other has roosters ...
Category
1950s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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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