Taisho Table Lamps

A six sided large French Bronze Lantern. French.

Pair of Modeline 635 model designed by Arthur Jacobs. The original advertisement describes these lamps as having a Japanese influence. One can see the similarities of Jacobs design with common Japanese aesthetics. His cylinder shape with sheer white shade seems to borrow from Japanese rice paper veiled lanterns. The flares at the top of the lamps spires resemble the pointed tips of Japanese roofs...

Antique Bradley & Hubbard oil kerosene lamp from 1885-1894, Model "Perfection", B&H engraved on the base. The lamp is of old brass and very ornate cast iron old-gold-gilded and beaut...

Pierre Sindre 'Visir' portable brass and glass table lamp for Örsjö. Designed by Scandinavian creator Pierre Sindre, the 'Visir' portable table lamp is ...

COVETED REMBRANDT! REMBRANDT MCM LAMP! Hyper Rare "3 Wishes" Lamp Three Coins in the Wishing Well An Impossible Find! Fifties fun at its Finest! APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS: HEIGHT: 31" SHADE: 18" WHITE LINEN SHADE CIRCA 1953 WOW! This lamp is one of those once in a lifetime acquisitions! The "3 Wishes" lamp is named for the 3 coins being dropped into the wishing well! The brass "spray" from the coins hitting the water is a marvelous mid century design flourish! Lighting folklore has it that the owner of this lamp is afforded three wishes...

One of kind antique hand blown clear cut glass three-light wall lantern with very elegant brass mounts, France, circa 1900-1910. The glass bowl and the upper glass plate are entirely...

Late 19th- Early 20th century Chinese famille rose porcelain reticulated wedding lantern lamp with central Imperial Dragon motif medallions. The lamp is composed of the porcelain lantern set...

An elegant pair of Japanese cast and lacquered bronze pagoda lanterns, Taisho Period, circa 1920, Japan. The lanterns a true pair, with mirrored decorations and lantern doors opening in opposite directions. The lanterns of traditional toro form, cast in bronze, and lacquered. Each lantern comprised of three parts - the "roof", the "fire box", and the pedestal. This type of pedestal lantern is called a dai-doro, as opposed to the hanging lantern type, tsuri-doro. The hexagonal roof of the lantern, reminiscent of temples or pagodas, features a wonderful, dense cloud pattern with three heart-shaped cutouts, known as inome, or boar's eye. The roof topped by a hoju, the Buddhist flaming Jewel of Wisdom. Each of the six corners feature a fantastic shachihoko, mythical beasts with the face of a tiger and body of a fish. Bells are suspended from the shachihoko. The globular body of the lantern features four pierced panels with the three leaf hollyhock mon of the Tokugawa clan surrounded by a karakusa pattern of scrolling vines. One panel serving as a hinged door with a lock stylized as the Three Jewels...

Pair of Japanese Decorated, figural painted Porcelain and Brass Table Lamps, Circa early 20th Century Measure 7" in width, 7" in depth and stand 24" tall to the top of the light sock...

A wonderful large vintage Vaughan lighting etched glass / crystal bell jar lantern in a diamond pattern with leaf fern details and bronze housing and decorative chain in the neoclass...

Enchanting antique sculpture of a girl on the stairs holding a light, by Umberto Stiaccini, Florence circa 1910. This beautiful and truly elegant, sculptural table or desk lamp is...

Antique Japanese Cloisonné Lamp, circa 1910, with blue, wine white and turquoise color enamel inlay on bronze vase, mounted on a round hand ...