Unique Art Glass & Metal Company Leaded Glass Peony Table Lamp C. 1915

Laurel Lamp Company (American, founded 1950s), circa 1950's. The Laurel Lamp Company of Newark, NJ was an American lighting manufacturer that was founded in the 1950s by Charles Kurz and Edward Engelhard. The company specialized in the production of high-quality, modernist lighting fixtures that were designed to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Each lamp is constructed in mahogany wood and carved to depict a female body form. Then mounted to brass framed bases. Large scale lamps that will fit any environment. Lamps measure 39.25" to finial and 33" to top socket This exact model was shown in Don Draper...

Fine Arts Lamp Company, 20th century. 21" h to socket 29.5" h to finial "The company’s artistic heritage began in the New York glassmaking factory founded by Max Blumberg in the late nineteenth century. In 1940, his son Jack Blumberg gathered the finest designers, sculptors, and decorative artists to fulfill their shared vision of becoming the world’s premier lighting manufacturer, and Fine Art Lamps was born. In 1965, Jack’s son Max carried on the commitment of his grandfather and father to design excellence and superb workmanship. In 1976, the company moved to Miami and expanded its operations capitalizing on the dynamic and creative culture thriving in South Florida at the time. Over time, Fine Art has been honored with numerous design awards, including the prestigious ART Manufacturer of the Year Award an unprecedented nine times, distinguishing the company beyond compare, and cementing our induction into the ART Hall of Fame. In early 2018, as Max looked to enjoy new adventures in retirement, the company was acquired by his long-term executive team...

A new old stock vintage chapman lamp in the Regency style. Constructed in brass and glass to visually simulate bamboo. Original tag affixed. Mea...

Rene Lalique (French, 1860-1945). A beautiful Amber glass and whiteish patina around the foliate leaves. The glass vase is mounted with a bronze chinoiserie base, acanthus leaf stem ...

Baccarat (French, founded 1764). A pair of vintage "Cyclades" pattern table lamps. Each lamp is of bulbous form, swirl pattern cuts through surface and ...

Large Antique Kashmiri Blue & White Candlestick converted into table lamp India, Circa 1890s An exotic carved wood and lacquer candlestick with spiral columns decorated in traditiona...

A stunning leaded slag glass table lamp by Wilkinson. This beautiful lamp features blooming and budding peonies flowers. Good wiring with a new cloth cord. The base has a great patin...

Lovely, large leaded glass table lamp after Louis Comfort Tiffany with shade featuring berry vine motif and standard with iridescent turtleback glass. 34 1/2 inches tall and 22 inch...

Tiffany Studios leaded glass and patinated bronze "Vine Border" table lamp, circa 1910 on a large Greek urn design base with three-arm spider supports above urn form oil canister, ...

Tiffany’s “Peony” table lamp was a work grounded in naturalism but reaching for the divine. With a shade of resplendent blooms and a mosaic base evoking the hallowed ground of church floors, Tiffany’s peony lamp demonstrates his foundation in both Art nouveau and ecclesiastical art. To depict his multi-hued bouquet, Tiffany depicted two different cultivars, a Greek peony, and a Japanese peony. Tiffany used burgundy glass streaked with lapis to express the richness of the Greek Peony. Favored by neoclassical artists for their symmetry and simplicity, Tiffany featured the bloom in the architecture of his country estate. To represent the candy-striped Japanese peony Shima Nishiki, Tiffany used cream glass streaked with fuschia. The shade elegantly depicts different stages of growth from the bud, first bloom, peak bloom, to wilting. When peony petals wilt, their veins darken, and their form puckers. Tiffany’s glass selectors chose a stone textured glass called granite glass to express the wilting of the petals and their pronounced venation. The background and border of the shade is a golden amber, streaked with magenta and blue. The top-down perspective of the peony with a dirt background was a type of painting called “Rasenstück”, a detailed study of a piece of turf. The crux of the Rasenstück was the elevation of the humble. Popularized in the nineteenth century by the American Pre-Raphaelites, the movement believed in the idea of "truth to nature". The principle encouraged painters to capture the natural world as truthfully as possible, not romanticizing what they saw. In these nature studies, painters depicted flowers and trees in the soil from which they grew. While sublime on its own, the shade and base taken together paint a picture of Tiffany’s Japanese garden. Peonies imported from the far east bordered serene ponds. A frieze of turtleback tiles hypnotizes the viewers with its scarlet glow, evoking the red flash of a sunset, as seen through a field of cattails, rendered in bronze. Below it, the row of cat tails blends into a mosaic of red, yellow, and green glass. While Tiffany’s chief designer Clara Driscoll is most famous for her naturalistic lamp designs, the bread and butter of Tiffany Studios was its ecclesiastical department. Red, yellow, and green colorways were widely used in the depiction of Baroque angels, whose wings were modeled after birds of paradise. As hunters removed their legs upon sale, many believed they neither ate nor drank, and instead floated ethereally like angels. A lamp such as this epitomizes Tiffany’s understanding of his artistic vision in the context of the entire history of artistic expression. Since falling in love with glass at age twelve in the cathedrals of Chartres, light itself became a representation of divinity. A contemporary critic described Tiffany’s mosaics...

This is a bronzed metal and a stained glass plaque lamp. It depicts like an oval shaped theater stage. The border of the stage is decorated with scrolls of acanthus leaves and ribbons and the center with a sunset like stained glass plaque. In the right center of the front stage, there are a couple dressed with 18th century costumes ( He is requesting her to dance). The back of the lamp is made of a concave reeded metal plaque attached to a half moon metal base. The light switch is in this metal plaque. Behind the metal plaque, it is the light bulb. This lamp is a Scene in Action company motion lamp...

Phoenix glass lamp. Vase made by Phoenix Glass Company out of Monaca PA. C. 1930. Off white sculpted glass with peony pattern. Background is an ivory, and flowers are cream with sa...