$2,548Sale Price|20% Off
Frosted Clear Cut Crystal Banquet Oil Lamp
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This a clear/frosted cut crystal banquet oil lamp. It consists of a crystal lamp chimney, etched with flowers branches crystal ball shade joined to a brass burner with frosted crysta...
Crystal
Antique Victorian Banquet Oil Lamp, Hand Painted Floral Base, 1895
Located in New Orleans, LA
An antique late 19th century American “New Juno” Victorian banquet oil lamp having an outstanding hand painted and beautifully bulbous paneled shaped floral base, gilded cast iron fi...
Brass, Copper, Iron
$1,080Sale Price|40% Off
Antique Neoclassical Duplex English Brass Corinthian Banquet Oil Lamp GWTW
Located in Dayton, OH
An exquisite antique English brass Duplex oil lamp, featuring a tall base in the shape of a Corinthian column festooned with cherub / satyr faces and leaurel wreaths / swag. The milk...
Brass
Antique Bradley & Hubbard Oil Lamp with Green Glass Shade, 1900
By Bradley & Hubbard
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is an original Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company banquet oil lamp. The base section is a teardrop or pear-shaped textured metal body supported by ornate wrought-iron s...
Metal, Iron
Antique American Victorian Electrified Kerosene Oil Banquet Lamp
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent American Victorian gilt metal banquet lamp, professionally converted from kerosene oil lamp, now electrified.
Metal
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H 24.5 in W 5.75 in D 5.75 in
Antique Italian Hand Painted Porcelain Banquet Oil Lamp with Genre Scene, 19th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique banquet oil lamp offers porcelain base with hand painted genre scene of young girl collection water and en verso lyre, numbered on base as photographed, 19th century Me...
Porcelain, Paint
Aesthetic Movement Hammered Silverplate Banquet Lamp with Etched Glass Shade
Located in Big Flats, NY
An electrified Aesthetic Movement banquet oil lamp offers etched globe shade with peacock over hammered silver plate base with stylized floral decoration and footed, electrified, cir...
Silver Plate
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H 31 in W 9 in D 9 in
Antique Victorian Green Glass GWTW Parlor Banquet Hurricane Oil Lantern Lamp 31"
Located in Dayton, OH
Rare apple green antique Victorian parlor Gone with the Wind oil lamp converted to electric. Foliate brass base with vase shaped green glass body, topped with grape vines; clear thum...
Brass
Pair of Baccarat Crystal & Bronze Dorè Lamps
By Baccarat
Located in Dallas, TX
Most likely they were originally banquet oil lamps.
Crystal, Bronze
English Banquet Fuel Oil Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Oil Lamps
Pair of Silver Plate Corinthian Column Lamps
Located in Alexandria, VA
This pair of lamps were originally oil burning banquet lamps, converted to electricity in the late 20th Century.
Antique table lamps became a category of their own once electricity moved light off the wall and onto furniture. The form split quickly: task-driven designs like the Anglepoise on one side, decorative ceramic and glass on the other.
Styles to Know
Base material shapes the light as much as the shade does: ceramic and glass diffuse a softer glow, while brass and metal read more directional. Layer the look with a mid-century modern floor lamp for ambient light, or set a pair on a mid-century modern nightstand for a bedroom.
How to Choose the Right Vintage Table Lamp
Buying individually rather than as a pair allows more flexibility when mixing eras across a room. For those shopping by name rather than by shape, the history of the Anglepoise lamp is worth a read. Each piece comes from a vetted 1stDibs seller, with era, designer and condition detailed, and the 1stDibs Promise stands behind every purchase.
Designer Eva Menz wants the light to "evoke curiosity and a sense of wonder."
Working with resin, a tricky material, has created moments of failure — and enlightenment.
Commissioned for the lakeside villa of a Finnish industrialist, it illuminated visits with dignitaries.
Across New York, there’s no shortage of statement lighting on view.
The 1920s design is a thrilling combination of saturated colors, ancient motifs and modern aesthetics.
Designed by a giant of Swedish lighting, the large-scale fixtures bring major drama.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Before founding the Memphis Group, Sottsass bent the rules of lighting design with the wonderfully wavy Cometa.