Empire Table Lamps
EMPIRE STYLE
From 1804–15, Napoléon I reigned as the emperor of France, bringing the country into a new era of opulence after the fall of the monarchy and the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. He declared, “We must have very solid things, made to last 100 years.” Empire-style furniture followed suit, with imposing pieces constructed from mahogany and adorned with gilded ornaments. Expanding on the neoclassicism popularized in the previous century — such as in Louis XVI style — Empire style borrowed from the great civilizations of antiquity, from Egypt to Greece and Rome, to connect this nascent empire to the power of the past.
Napoléon I believed the production of fine furniture would reflect the stature of the republic, with his official architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine leading the way with their work on his residences.
Luxurious materials, symmetrical shapes and bold colors characterize antique Empire-style bedroom furniture, armchairs, cabinets and other structures, with frequent motifs including mythological creatures, geometric designs, acanthus leaves, eagles, bees (the imperial emblem) and swans, a favorite of Empress Joséphine.
Flat surfaces, like marble tabletops, were accented with decadent details, such as the bronze furniture mounts made by sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire for the French palaces. Martin-Guillaume Biennais, who worked as the imperial goldsmith, crafted intricate luxury objects that mixed wood, fine metal, mother-of-pearl and ivory. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
The style became popular abroad, influencing the American Empire style. Stately pieces carved with sprigs of olives by cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange were acquired by American President James Monroe for the White House in 1817.
Find a collection of antique Empire tables, lighting, seating and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Empire
Period: Early 20th Century
Antique French Empire Napoleonic Table Lamps Lion Paws Cast Iron a pair
By Chapman Manufacturing Company, Stiffel, Gilbert Poillerat, Edward F. Caldwell & Co., Frederick Cooper
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Tall French Empire Table Lamps
Style, Vintage, Empire, Napoleonic, Traditional, Classic, Baroque,
Design: Traditional Napoleonic Column lamps in the manner of Chapman, Henredon,
Fre...
Category
1910s French Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Pair of English Adam Silver Plated Empire Column Table Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please note lamp shades NOT included.
Pair of Antique silver plated table lamps. Originally oil lamps converted to electric/plug in.
Category
Early 20th Century English Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Silver Plate
Antique Spelter Table Lamp In Empire Style. French C.1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful spelter table lamp
Amazing old bronze patina
The lamp has been re-wired.
Shade not included
The measurement relates to the lamp base not including shade
Free UK shipp...
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Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Spelter
1920's Empire Style Cut Crystal Table Lamp - Pair
Located in New York, NY
A pair of circa 1920's Empire style cut crystal table lamps
Category
1920s European Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
French Empire style Brass Column Lamp with an Eagle
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A highly decorative French empire style lamp likely made in the early 20thC. The polished brass column was likely the stem of a candelabra which was later embellished with an eagle ...
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Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
20th Century, French Gilt Bronze Buillotte Lamp
Located in IT
20th Century, French Gilt Bronze Buillotte Lamp
This elegant table lamp model buillotte was made in France towards the beginning of the twentieth century, of classic taste with deco...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
A French Figural Bronze Inkwell Desk Lamp with Tole Shade
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A French Figural Bronze Inkwell Desk Lamp with Tole Shade, Late 19th / Early 20th Century
French double inkwell figural bronze desk lamp, comprised of a central winged bronze cherub...
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Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
1920s Silver Plated Empire Column Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of circa 1920’s Silver plated empire style column table lamps
Category
1920s Unknown Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Ornate French Empire Figural Gilded Bronze & Marble Table Lamp
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Magnificent fancy French Empire gilded bronze figural table lamp having lovely nymph holding two branch floral torch with ceramic candles. The details such as her angelic face, love...
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Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
French Porcelain and Brass Table Lamp with Gold Lion Horse Design, Small
By Luc Lanel
Located in New York, NY
A small French porcelain table lamp with brass base, in the Empire style, circa early-20th century, France. This small French porcelain lamp, ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Gold, Brass
Antique French Empire Gilt Bronze Mounted Opaline Table Lamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
French, circa 1910. A good quality French empire table lamp with white opaline glass body with gilt bronze mounts and swan form handles to central opaline glass body. Marked to botto...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Black French Pair of Large Marble, Gilded Bronze Table Lights
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A black, vintage French pair of large table lamps made of hand crafted marble with a new round shade, in good condition. They are composed with its original switch, particularized by...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Metal, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Empire Gilt Gesso Lamp
Located in Harlingen, TX
An early 20th century French Empire torchère style table lamp with shade. Gilded gessoed candlestick form metal body with paw foot mounted base. Two l...
Category
Early 20th Century Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Empire Style French Antique Lamp
Located in Austin, TX
Lamp, French, “Bouillote”, made of finely cast bronze. The piece mimics a traditional oil lamp and is topped with a gold leaf painted adjustable lamp shade. It has been newly wired t...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
20th Century Black French Pair of Large Marble, Gilded Bronze Table Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A black, vintage French pair of large table lamps made of hand crafted marble with a new round shade, in good condition. They are composed with its original switch, particularized by...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire Style French Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Austin, TX
Bouillotte lamp; French; in the French Empire style. This piece has a base made of finely cast bronze featuring three arms. There is a beautiful hand painted and gold leafed adjustab...
Category
1920s French Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Bouillotte Desk Lamp
Located in Fairfax, VA
Crafted in early 20th century France, this table lamp features a beautiful bronze candelabra base. The lamp has been professionally electrified and restored and has two lights.
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Signed, 19th Century, Converted Milkglass Lamps Hand Painted with Ivy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of columnar table lamps, in Empire style, of milkglass. Each a round, faceted column, handpainted with scrolling vines of ivy. Lamped on round, pierced metal bases. Signed, "Pee...
Category
Early 1900s European Antique Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Milk Glass
Pair Empire Style Cut Glass and Gilt Bronze Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of very fine quality Empire style Cut Glass and Gilt Bronze Table Lamps. 16 inch height to top of sockets.
Category
Early 20th Century Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Bronze Empire Candlestick Lamp
Located in Fairfax, VA
Empire two color bronze candlestick that has-been electrified as table lamp with small silk lampshade.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Bronze Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Fairfax, VA
Elegant three light circle 1900 bouillotte table lamp with adjustable shade.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Silvered Bronze French Empire style Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine example of a French Empire bouillotte lamp made of silvered bronze. The circular base supports four decorative candle arms with nozzles; ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Silvered-Bronze and Cut-Glass Urn Lamp Bases, French Empire Style
Located in London, GB
A pair of silvered-bronze and cut-glass urn lamp bases in the French Empire style
American, 20th century
Measures: Height 55cm, width 22cm, depth 18cm
These fine lamp-bases, sha...
Category
Early 20th Century American Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Pair of Paris Porcelain Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Paris Porcelain vases mounted as lamps with later shades.
Measures: Height 22 x width 9 1/2
CW5130.
Category
1920s French Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French 1920s Empire Style Bronze and Opaline Glass Table Lamps, Wired
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of French Empire style bronze and opaline glass candelabra table lamps from the early 20th century, with scrolling arms and volutes. Created in France during the first quarter of the 20th century, each of this pair of table lamps attracts our attention with its bronze scrolling arms resting upon a white opaline glass pedestal. Raised on a tripartite base accented with delicate volutes, the candelabras have been rewired for the US. With their Empire silhouette...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Style Gilded Bronze Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Montreal, QC
French Empire style gilded bronze bouillotte lamp with 4 arms and a black tole lampe shade.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Style Table Lamp of Bronze and Flame Shaped Frosted Glass
Located in Barntrup, DE
This beautiful Empire-style table lamp on a bronze plinth with a central pine cone rises on three legs with paw feet topped by three bronze sphinx torsos, supporting the dark green t...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Early 20th Century Empire Brass and Bronze Table Lamp and Shade
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An early 20th French Empire style table lamp has a concave tri-form bronze plinth base set atop a slightly larger piece of marble in the same shape. The upper bowl portion is support...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Antique Empire Painted Globe Table Lamp
Located in Bradenton, FL
An antique Empire style brass lamp with a hand painted glass globe. A slender central column topped with an urn finial has two sockets that light with brass chain pulls. A blush and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
One Empire Style Silvered and Black Engraved Metal Table Lamp, France, 1930s
Located in IT
Empire style silvered and black engraved metal table lamp, France, early 20th century, 1930s
In the pictures you see two lamps but only one le...
Category
Early 20th Century European Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Pair of Antique Black and White Wedgwood Jasperware Urn Table Lamps
By Wedgwood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pair of antique black and white Wedgwood jasperware urn table lamps. Listing includes porcelain urn form bodies, wooden base, dual sockets, whi...
Category
Early 20th Century English Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
French Empire Style Brass Bouillotte Lamp with Black and Gilt Tole Shade
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful quality brass bouillotte lamp with gilt decorated metal shade. Fine details throughout, swan heads holding the tole painted shade and corbel style candle arms. Recently re-...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
French Empire Style Bronze Table Lamp
Located in Fairfax, VA
Large nine candelabra light French empire bronze table lamp.
Category
1920s French Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Style Bronze Table Lamp
Located in Fairfax, VA
Elegant two color bronze with face of god of the wind table lamp with hand pleated lampshade.
Category
1920s French Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Style Bronze-Colored Pewter and Frosted Cut Glass Table Lamp 1900s
Located in Barntrup, DE
The beautifully shaped French Empire-style table lamp, which is an electrified petroleum lamp, features a bronze-colored pewter body adorned with three ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Pewter, Brass
Wonderful French Empire Neoclassical Ormolu Painated Gilt Bronze Crystal Lamp
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful French Empire / neoclassical, ormolu painated and gilt bronze with crystal column center lamp.
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
20th Century French Black Enamel Tole and Gilt Bronze Table Lamp with Silk Shade
Located in Firenze, IT
A beautiful pair of French Empire style early 20th century black lacquered metal and parcel gilt bronze table lamps with pagoda silk shades.
These high quality chic and stylish neoc...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Metal, Ormolu
Table Lamp Alabaster Onix Caramel and Brass Large Column Early 20th Century
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
Alabaster table lamp Onix and Brass large column Form. Early 20th Century
Large table lamp in alabaster and brass style
Empire.
It is of high size, suitable to put on a side tab...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Alabaster, Brass
Pair of Bouillotte Lamps
Located in London, GB
Pair of bouillotte lamps in toleware and bronze, in the French Empire manner.
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Urn and Rams Head White & Gold Porcelain Table Lamp Empire Style, German, Large
Located in New York, NY
A gorgeous large white and gold porcelain table lamp in urn form with detailed ram's head design, in the Empire style, attributed to Furstenberg Porcelain, Germany, circa 20th centur...
Category
Early 20th Century German Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Gold
Fine Pair of French Empire Style Black Porcelain & Bronze Mounted Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and fine pair of French Empire style Art Deco period black porcelain and bronze mounted table lamps. This beautiful pair of bl...
Category
1920s French Vintage Empire Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Empire table lamps for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Empire 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, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Empire table lamps made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original table lamps, popular names associated with this style include Alexandre Vossion, Gherardo Degli Albizzi, The Marbro Lamp Company, and Chapman Manufacturing Company. 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 $194 and tops out at $117,686 while the average work can sell for $2,769.
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