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.
Find a collection of antique Chinese Export tables, beds, cupboards, table lamps and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Chinese Export
Pair of 19th Century Rose Medallion Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A pair of 19th century Chinese Cantonese / rose medallion vases / lamps. Each with wonderful green ground decoration with inset hand painted panels depicting classical scenes with Geisha girls, courtiers and children, gilded ormolu mounts...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Chinese 19th Century Powder blue porcelain vases / lamps.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
Pair Chinese 19th Century Powder Blue vases / lamps. Each with Blue and gilded ground, inset hand painted panels depicting classical battle scenes of warriors on horse back.
We can ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pair of Antique Rose Medallion / Cantonese Vases / Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of bulbous shaped 19th century Chinese rose medallion/ vases / lamps.
Having wonderful bold colours, the scenes depicting classical interior scenes, gilded ...
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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
Pair Fine 19th Century Chinese Cloisonné Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality pair of 19th century Chinese Cloisonne enamel vases, each with wonderful myithical Dragon flying among clouds. mounted with French gilded ormolu rims and plinths.
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Famille Rose lamp.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose export porcelain vase / lamp.
Having wonderful scrolling foliate and motif decoration, the inset hand painted panels depicting a vases of flowers, tables and chairs...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Noare style vase lamp. C19th
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality Samson porcelain Famille Verte style lidded vase / lamp. Having classical oriental scenes, hand-painted. Gilded scrolling highlighted decoration to the black grou...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Blue & White Ginger Jar Converted to Lamp
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 20th Century blue and white ginger jar converted to lamp in the style of the Chinese period of the 18th Century. Ornamented with a floral landscape of leaves, and geometric mot...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Chinese blue and white Ginger jar vases / lamps, C19th.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An unusual pair of late 19th Century Chinese blue and white ginger jar lamps. Each with hand painted motif decoration to the gro...
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Late 19th Century Chinese 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...
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19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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
A 19th Century French Samson Famille Rose Porcelain Lamp
By Samson & Cie
Located in New York, NY
Conceived in the Chinese export style; the base of urn form on a sole base and with lions' masks applied to the side; profusely decorated with polychrome sprays and bearing an apocryphal armorial; fitted with a brass light socket...
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19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
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
19th Century Chinese Blue and White Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative 19th century Chinese blue and white vase or lamp, having a white ground with blue hand painted scenes of exo...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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 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
Pair of Kerosene Lamps with Birds in Chinese Style
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of French antique kerosene lamps. The bronze paunch is decorated with birds on branches and flowers in Chinese style. What makes these lamps stun...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Lovely Decorative Chinese Vase Converted into a Table Lamp Decorative Piece
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
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
$266 Sale Price
30% Off
Samson Porcelain Famille Rose Style Lidded Vase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century Famille Rose style porcelain lidded vase / lamp. Having wonderful colorful floral and motif decoration with scenes of vases with exotic flowers....
Category
Late 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
Early 19th Century Chinese Celadon vase/lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality early 19th Century Chinese Celedon porcelain vase / lamp. Having a wonderful bellied form with classical embossed motif decoration around, shell like handles to e...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
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
$2,200
Archaistic Chinese Carved Agate and Gilt Metal Lamp
Located in New York, US
Our beautiful carved agate in archaistic urn-form features the figures of a wise man and female dancer and was mounted as a lamp in the early 20th century. It is mounted on a carved ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Agate, Metal
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 Blue and White 19th Century Vase / lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A decorative late 19th Century Chinese export blue and white vase / lamp. Having wonderful flower and leaf decoration and mythical ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
19th Century Rose Medallion lamp.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century Chinese Rose medallion vase / lamp. Having classical inset hand painted panels depicting classical scenes of various courtier, the ground in the typi...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Vases / Lamps, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century Chinese Famille Rose Chinese porcelain vases / lamps. Each with wonderful gilded ormolu scrolling Rococo style mounts. Classical exotic birds...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
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
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
Chinese Blue and White Prunus blossom vase/lamp, circa 1890.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An impressive late 19th Century Chinese Blue and White Prunus blossom vase/lamp, circa 1890
Batch 74 N/H
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Late 19th Century English Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Carved and Painted Wooden Buddha Head Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese carved bleached wood table lamp with Buddha head on a square giltwood base with a giltwood head piece under a three light top with central...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Glass, Wood
Pair of Yellow Ground German Porcelain Vases with Flower and Bird Decoration
Located in New York, NY
A pair of beautiful yellow ground German porcelain vases mounted as lamps hand painted with flowers, bird and insect decorations. Each of these lamps are beautifully hand painted wit...
Category
1880s German Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
$19,744 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Chinese 18th Century style Ormolu mounted lamp.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An impressive Chinese 18th Century style, Celadon porcelain vase / lamp, having classical oriental motif hand painted decoration to the whole, and scrolling handles to each side. Mou...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
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
Large Pair of 19th Chinese Yellow and Green Ground Vases/ lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A large, good quality pair of 19th century Chinese green and yellow ground vases, each with classical motif decoration, scrolling flowers, leaves an...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Famille Noire Porcelain Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Chinese Famille Noire porcelain vase / lamp, having wonderful exotic flowers hand painted to a Black ground, a tapering form mounted on bronze claw feet. ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
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
19th Century Samson Famille Rose Style Ormolu Mounted Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century Samson porcelain, Famille Rose style porcelain lidded vase / lamp. Having wonderful colorful classical oriental motif, floral and foliate decora...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
$5,811 / set
19th Century Pair of Porcelain lamps Ormolu Bronze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of very beautiful powder blue porcelain lamps ,the gourd-shaped are very rare ,the bronze are finely executed,high -end decoration
they are in their original condition
Category
1890s French Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
$13,500 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Chinese blue and white porcelain vase / lamp, C19th
Located in Brighton, Sussex
This exquisite late 19th-century Chinese blue and white vase lamp showcases traditional craftsmanship with intricate hand-painted designs. The vase features delicate motifs of floral...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Bronze Table Lamps in the Style of James Mont
By James Mont
Located in New York, NY
Impressive pair of Chinese bronze table lamps in the style of influential 20th Century American furniture designer James Mont. The lamps, crafted in oil rubbed bronze, resemble trad...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
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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