Victorian Table Lamps

Pair of 19th Century, silver-plated lamps. Featuring a doric column shaft on a circular beaded pedestal and stepped cylindrical beaded base.

This is a splendid antique Victorian silver-plated Corinthian column table lamp now converted to electricity, late 19th Century in date. This decorative antique table lamp featur...

This is an impressive antique Victorian silver plated Doric column table lamp, late 19th century in date and later converted to electricity. It features a classic Doric Capital decorated with a cylindrical fluted shaft raised on a large rectagular plinth base decorated with acanthus leaves. Add an element of pure luxury to your home with this antique silver plated table lamp. Condition: In excellent working condition having been beautifully cleaned and rewired, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: height 61 x width 17 x depth 17 Dimensions in inches: height 2 foot x width 7 inches x depth 7 inches The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of columns. Originating in the western Doric region of Greece, it is the earliest and, in its essence, the simplest of the orders, though still with complex details in the entablature above. The Greek Doric column was fluted or smooth-surfaced, and had no base, dropping straight into the stylobate or platform on which the temple or other building stood. The capital was a simple circular form, with some mouldings, under a square cushion that is very wide in early versions, but later more restrained. Above a plain architrave, the complexity comes in the frieze, where the two features originally unique to the Doric, the triglyph and guttae, are skeuomorphic memories of the beams and retaining pegs of the wooden constructions that preceded stone Doric temples. In stone they are purely ornamental. The relatively uncommon Roman and Renaissance Doric retained these, and often introduced thin layers of moulding or further ornament, as well as often using plain columns. More often they used versions of the Tuscan order, elaborated for nationalistic reasons by Italian Renaissance writers, which is in effect a simplified Doric, with un-fluted columns and a simpler entablature with no triglyphs or guttae. The Doric order was much used in Greek Revival architecture...

This is a splendid antique Victorian silver-plated Corinthian column table lamp now converted to electricity, Circa 1880 in date. This opulent antique table lamp features a kingl...

This is an impressive antique Victorian silver plated Corinthian column table lamp, circa 1890 in date and later converted to electricity.. It features a Classic Corinthian Capital...

Stunning heavy gauge silver plated on bronze electric table lamp of tall slender proportions, late 19th, early 20th century possibly produced by English Birmingham Maker Thomas Messi...

This is a splendid pair of antique Victorian silver plated Corinthian column table lamp now converted to electricity, late 19th century in date, and beating the makers mark H E & CO ...

Pair of English nickel silver circular column table lamps with decorative rope motif and resting on step back circular plinth bases, Late 19th century. Stamped by maker. Lamps were o...

This is an elegant antique Victorian silver plated Corinthian column table lamp, circa 1880 in date. The lamp features a capital decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls which f...

This is an elegant antique Victorian silver plated Corinthian column table oil lamp base converted to electricity, circa 1890 in date. The lamp features its original glass mounted...

This is an elegant antique Victorian silver plated and glass mounted table lamp, circa 1880 in date. The lamp features its original glass mounted facetted cut clear glass oil res...

This is an impressive large antique Victorian sterling silver Corinthian column table lamp bearing hallmarks for Sheffield, 1896. It features a classic Corinthian Capital decorated with acanthus leaves, the shaft has invert and exvert fluting, on a stepped base decorated with beading. Add an element of pure luxury to your home with this solid silver table lamp...