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Material: Ormolu
Pair of French 19th-20th Century Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Putti Table Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XV style figural gilt bronze Putti torchere table lamps on a Rouge Royal base. Each figure representi...
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Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Famille Verte Style Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Chinese famille verte style (Samson) hexagonal vase, having scenes of girls amongst flowers, leaves and vases, mounted on a gilded ormolu base.
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Sèvres Porcelain Still Life Ormolu Celadon Table Lamp Bronze
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning French Sevres style Soft Paste Porcelain and Ormolu with Twin Scrolling Handles ending with Acanthus Leaf detailling, Electric Table Lamp of traditional bulbous form and of ...
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19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Ormolu and Tole French Bouillotte Lamp
Located in Locust Valley, NY
An ormolu and tole French bouillotte lamp with three arms and circular base. The beautiful lamp is fitted with a key motif finial with an arrow beneath, a black tole shade decorated...
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Early 20th Century Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Wonderful Pair French Gilt Dore Bronze Cut Crystal Urn Form Ormolu-Mounted Lamps
By Baccarat
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Pair Of French Gold Gilt Dore Bronze Ormolu & Cut Crystal Urn Form Lamps, Completely Rewired With New Sockets In The Manner Of Baccarat.
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20th Century French Regency Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu
pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. Bronze, Wood, and Ormolu lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. patinated Bronze, Wood, and Ormolu lamps. Each wonderful lamp is raised on a asymmetrical patinated Wood base in ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Lamps by Gherardo Degli Albizzi, Pair
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 20th c., pair of Italian Louis XVI style gold plated, patinated bronze and gilt bronze column table lamps by Gherardo Degli Albizzi. Of beautiful quality, two light, fluted, col...
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Late 20th Century Italian Louis XVI Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Ormolu, Gold Plate
Two Antique Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze and Marble Table Lamps
Located in London, GB
These exquisite gilt bronze (ormolu) lamps were crafted in the late 19th century in France. With their classically-inspired urns, scrolls, foliage, flower and fruit swags, these lamp...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$11,430 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Pair of French Provincial Neoclassical Tole Lamps with Swan Handles and Paw Feet
Located in Middleburg, VA
A graceful pair of French Provincial lamps, originally crafted as oil lamps in Provence circa 1800 and later expertly converted for electricity. Fashioned from painted tole, these ur...
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Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French Cassolettes Marble and Ormolu Bronze Rams Head Table Lamps C 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of French cassolettes marble and ormolu bronze table lamps with rams head mounts, foliage ribbon swags, hairy hoof feet, tripod ...
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1810s French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair French 19th Century Napoleon III Empire Style Gilt-Bronze Urn Table Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine pair of French 19th century Napoleon III Empire style patinated-bronze and gilt-bronze Mounted Allegorical covered Urn vases lamps in the manner of Pierre-Philippe Thomir...
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Late 19th Century French Empire Revival Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
$12,950 Sale Price / set
31% Off
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...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Bronze, Ormolu, Marble lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most charming and large scale true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Bronze, Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu lamps. Each charming electrified candelabra is raised...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French Mid-19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very elegant pair of French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. Verte Antique marble and ormolu mounted urns mounted into lamps. The pair are raised by square marble bases with concave ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XV Style Marble
Ormolu Candelabra Henri Vian
By Henri Vian
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and palatial pair of French 19th century Louis XV style marble and gilt bronze mounted four-light figural candelabra by Henri Vian, (French, 1860-1905). The ovoid marble ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$29,850 Sale Price / set
37% Off
pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Porcelain and Ormolu lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A high quality and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Porcelain and Ormolu lamps. This stunning pair of celadon colored Porcelain vases mounted into lamps are rai...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French and Asian Collaboration 19th Century Porcelain and Ormolu Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional pair of French and Asian collaboration 19th century teal blue fire glazed porcelain and ormolu lamps attributed to Theodore Deck. Each lamp is raised by an elegant squ...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Chinese Famille Rose Vase or Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century style Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vase, having mythical Dragons, flowers and foliage to the yellow ground. Mounted on gilded ormolu base and top.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze and Cut Glass Lamps
Located in London, GB
Pair of French neoclassical style gilt bronze and cut glass lamps
French, 20th century
Dimensions: Height 75cm, width 24cm, depth 20cm
Designed in the neoclassical Louis XVI sty...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
$14,287 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Pair of French 19th Century Renaissance St. Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A remarkable pair of French 19th century Renaissance st. patinated bronze and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by a beautiful circular base with three fine seashell shaped supports ...
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19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Large French Ormolu Gilt Bronze Lamp c1880 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a antique monumental finely cast antique French ormolu lamp now converted to electricity, circa 1880 in date.
The triform base candelabra lamp has a trifrom paw foot baseswi...
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1880s Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century Russian Empire Bronze and Marble Figures as Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Pair of 19th century Russian patinated bronze neoclassical figures on Siena marble plinths. Now as lamps. Intricately cast and well gilded ormolu mounts. Two of the four seasons. Gra...
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Mid-19th Century Russian Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Pair of Mid-19th Century Bronze and Ormolu Candlestick Lamps
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Mid-19th Century bronze & ormolu Candlesticks having reeded sconces above leaf scrolled reeded tapering stems with leaf scroll & lion’s paw triform bases.
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Mid-19th Century English Regency Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Rock Crystal Fluted Urn Lamps
Located in Cypress, CA
Elegant pair of Rock crystal fluted urn lamps. (A)
Each lamp with Rock Crystal pulls and finial
Meticulous attention has been given to every details
Meas...
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Late 20th Century American Neoclassical Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Rock Crystal, Ormolu
$6,400 / set
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble And Ormolu Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and very high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Brèche Violette marble and ormolu lamps. Each large scale lamp is raised by a square base with fine ormolu ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Biscuit Porcelain Lamps
Located in New York, NY
An elegant and refined pair of French Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted biscuit porcelain lamps. This exquisite pair of French lamps is crafted in the Louis XVI style, showcasing the ha...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
A pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and large scale pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu lamps, signed Fournisseur & Graveur, Paris. Each beautiful urn mounted into a ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Griotte Marble, Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Girondole lamps
By Baccarat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and tastefully decorated pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Girondole lamps. Each six light lamp is raised on a circular Ormolu base wi...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Rare Pair of Famille Rose Porcelain and Ormolu Napoleon III Oil Lamps
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A beautiful French and Asian collaboration of a 19thC pair of Napoleon III Famille Rose porcelain, (from Canton China), and gilt bronze and brass oil lamps that miraculously include ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
$6,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large Pair of Ormolu Mounted Cobalt blue Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
A large pair of antique ormolu mounted deep cobalt blue porcelain vases in the sèrves style converted to lamps.
Origin: France
Date: late 19th Century
Dimensions: 12" W x 36" H ...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Chinese Blanc de Chine, French Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Chinese Blanc de Chine and antique French Louis XV style ormolu-mounted table lamps. The porcelain is finely hand engraved wit...
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18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XV st. Ormolu, Glass, and Crystal Girandole lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. Ormolu, Glass, and Crystal Girandole lamps. Each beautiful four arm Girandole is raised on a circular stepped Orm...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble and Ormolu Table Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and very high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Brèche Verte d'Egypte marble and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by a square base with a fine mottled bo...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French Turn of the Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu and Crystal Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional pair of French turn of the century Louis XVI st. ormolu and crystal lamps. Each two arm lamp is raised by a square base with fine topie sha...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Two Antique Cloisonné Enamel and Gilt Bronze Oil Lamps
Located in London, GB
These beautiful oil lamps were created in France in the late 19th century. They are designed in a wonderful chinoiserie style—a European take on Chinese decorative arts.
The lamp...
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Late 19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel, Bronze, Ormolu
$5,234 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Fine Pair of Ormolu-Mounted White Opaline Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Origin: French
Date: Late 19th century
Dimension: 39 inches overall.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
$5,500 / set
Pair of French Jewelled White Marble and Gilt Bronze Mounted Table Lamps
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of Ormolu-Mounted marble lamps
In the Louis XVI style
Each lamp of exquisite proportion, the ovoid marble bodies with a Grecian wave ormolu...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Gilt Bronze Mounted Bisque Figures after Boizot
Located in London, GB
Pair of gilt bronze mounted bisque figures after Boizot. Each inscribed ''Canova'' and modelled after ''L'etude'' and ''La Philosophie'' designed by Sim...
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1890s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
True Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble
Ormolu Candelabra Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and very high quality true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and white Carrara marble candelabra lamps. Each seven arm lamp is raised by an elegant squar...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Bronze, Marble and Ormolu lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Bronze, Marble and Ormolu screen lamp. This wonderful adjustable lamp is raised by four toupie shaped feet sup...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pr. 19 C Ormolu
Chinese Blue Poudré Porcelain Candelabra lamps, Att. Caldwell
Located in New York, NY
A Magnificent Pair of 19 Century Ormolu & Chinese Blue Poudré Porcelain Candelabra, Attributed to Caldwell. Each candelabrum consists of a cylindrical porcelain vase with a slightly ...
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1890s American Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
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Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Lamps on French Gilded Bases
Located in London, GB
A pair of Japanese porcelain antique vase lamps of waisted form.
Dressed with French ormolu mount of unusual double gourd form, very finely painted with court officials, samurai, and gilded...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
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Ormolu
Pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Blue-Ground Porcelain Vases Fitted as Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A fine quality pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Porcelain Vases mounted as lamps in mottled blue-ground glaze. Resting on square ormolu base with garland band and ormolu banded ...
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19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu and Baccarat Girandoles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. ormolu and Baccarat Girandoles. Each lamp is raised by a fine triangular ormolu base with most ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu and Baccarat Crystal Girandoles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal girandoles. Each girandole is raised by a circular ormolu base with a most decorative beaded and acan...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Palatial Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Malachite Candelabra
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Palatial Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Six Light Malachite Candelabra
Finely casted gilt bronze and rococo and foliate arms above a spiraled carved malachite body with bronze handles, supported on thick square bases.
Malachite is a semi-precious stone and also a valuable copper ore, hydrous copper carbonate. It is a beautiful green earth stone...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
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Malachite, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Candelabras Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and extremely high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu candelabras lamps, signed by Victor Paillard and after a model by John Flaxman. Each five ar...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
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Ormolu
Wonderful Pair of Late 19th Century Two Tone Bronze Candelabra after Clodion
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Very Fine Pair of Late 19th Century Two Tone Bronze Nine Light Candelabra After Clodion
After Clodion
Each cast as a female and a male figure from a bacchanale upholding eight scroll branches with a central branch in the form of a quiver, on a bronze mounted circular base of granite.
Claude Michael Clodion, [1738-1814], was the son-in-law of sculptor Augustin Pajou; he trained in Paris in the workshops of Lambert Sigisbert Adam, his maternal uncle and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, the most successful sculptor of the time. After winning the Prix de Rome, he moved to Italy, sharing a studio with Jean-Antoine Houdon and studying antique, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture.
In 1771 Clodion returned to Paris, where he continued to produce mostly in terracotta. He also worked with his brothers in other media, decorating objects...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
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Granite, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Patricia marble and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by a fine square Vert de Patricia marble base with concave corn...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XV st. Crystal, Glass and Ormolu Girandoles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. Crystal, Glass and Ormolu Girandoles. Each six light lamp is raised by a fine triangular pierced Ormolu base with...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu, faux painted Porphyry and Bleu Turquin marble lamps. Each lamp is raised by a wonderfully executed triangular shaped ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
$15,300 / set
Pair Antique French Cut Crystal and Ormolu Lamps, Circa 1890
s.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique French Fine Cut Crystal and Ormolu Lamps, Circa 1890's.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Large Pair of 19th Century Japanese Bronze Vases or Lamps
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of Meiji period (1868-1912) Japanese bronze vases, each having foliate and floral decoration with birds in relief, gilded ormolu tops and bases.
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19th Century Japanese Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A pair of French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Rock Crystal and Ormolu lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and most elegant pair of French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Rock Crystal and Ormolu lamps. Each stunning spiral reeded Rock Crystal lamp is raised on a dome shaped ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Rock Crystal, Ormolu
A true pair of French 19th century faux Porphyry Ormolu patinated Bronze lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most decorative true pair of French 19th century faux Porphyry, Ormolu and patinated Bronze lamps of Napoleon. Each impressive lamp is raised by a mottled rectangular ...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze, Ormolu
true pair of French 19th century Bronze, Ormolu and Marble candelabra lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most attractive and high quality true pair of French mid 19th century Empire st. patinated Bronze, Ormolu and Vert de Patricia Marble candelabra lamps. Each stunning electrified ca...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Sevres Porcelain Vase as a Table Lamp
Located in Tampa, FL
A late 19th century Sevres porcelain cast or a vase that has been converted into a lamp. It's hard to tell if it were a cast or a vase because it has an ormolu cap on it. Lamp with a...
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1880s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Early 19th Century Ormolu Candlestick Lamps
Located in London, GB
A pair of early 19th Century ormolu Candlesticks having beaded nozzles, supported on tapering stems with lion's paw feet ending on engine turned circular bases. Now converted to lamp...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
A pair of gilt bronze Empire style candelabra / lamps circa 1860
Located in Sleepy Hollow, NY
A fine pair of mid- to late-19th-century French Empire–style gilt-bronze candelabra, later converted into lamps. Each piece features a fluted column rising to finely chased capitals ...
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Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
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Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of Early 19th Century Bronze and Ormolu Candlestick Lamps
Located in London, GB
A pair of early 19th century bronze & ormolu Candlesticks, having fishscale engine-turned sconces above tapering stems with spiral engine-turning supported on circular bases.
(Now...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Ormolu Table Lamps and Other Ormolu Lighting for Sale on 1stDibs
Able to double as task lighting, table lamps can illuminate darker corners of a room, and antique ormolu table lamps and other ormolu lighting can be incorporated into a variety of spaces.
Your style of decorating doesn't have to necessarily have to be rooted in neoclassical design in order to tastefully introduce ormolu — while demand for the material and/or technique was at its peak in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, ormolu table lamps, desk lamps and other ormolu furniture and decor are still widely loved by contemporary designers and collectors.
What is ormolu?
Ormolu is a brilliant form of decorative trickery. To the untrained eye, ormolu table lamps, clocks, jewelry boxes and other ormolu furniture and decor look like they're made of solid gold. But those in the know recognize ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — as having been essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
“Most commonly, ormolu refers to a bronze object that has been covered with gold, typically 18 karat or 24 karat,” explains Jamie Sinai, director of the antiques specialist Mayfair Gallery, in London. “For that reason, ormolu is sometimes called gilt bronze or, in French, bronze doré. Strictly speaking, however, the term ormolu also denotes the technique of applying gold to a metal.”
“The word comes from the French or moulu, which translates as ‘ground or powdered gold’ — the form the gold takes before it is applied to a metal surface.”
From the court of King Louis XVI to that of Napoleon I, the French elite snapped up furniture mounted with ormolu, as well as sconces, candelabra and table lamps made from the material.
If you're looking to bring a touch of this 19th-century pizzazz to your desk, an antique ormolu table lamp is a decorative touch that blends ornament and functionality. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room, and a well-crafted ormolu table lamp does more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Today, antiques collectors and interior designers seek out the finest in ormolu clocks and continue to prize ormolu for its extraordinary craftsmanship and history-infused glamour.
“This wondrous material was highly sought after in France as the ultimate luxury. It magically resembled solid gold and sparkled under candlelight,” says Sinai.
Find antique ormolu table lamps, ormolu floor lamps and other ormolu lighting on 1stDibs.
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