Art Nouveau table lamps are still popular today. Tiffany is well renown for their lampshades but other makers such as Daum and Loetz were also renown makers.
Below are some examples and price guides of some Art Nouveau table lamps including a French brass lamp and an unusual glass lamp in the shape of a conch shell by Loetz.
A glass, glazed stoneware and bronze table lamp ca. 1900–1902 by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat French with a Tiffany shade
Reference: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
French Art Nouveau table lamp with German ‘Matador’ oil burner, c 1900
Among the vast range of oil lamp designs available in Europe at the turn of the 20th century, those made in France in the Art Nouveau style are the most attractive. Although glass shades enjoyed the greatest popularity, lamps with decorative metal shades in polished brass (sometimes combined with glass) were also in demand. Made from finely cast, hand-wrought and hand-decorated metal components, this table lamp is a wonderful example of French Art Nouveau style. The style is evident in its sinuous legs and arms, beautifully crafted shade with whiplash ribbon, and a striking burner container decorated with a continuing frieze of the whiplash motif. The ‘Matador’ burner by Ehrich & Graetz and the original ‘Veritas’ glass chimney complete the lamp.
Reference: Museum of Applied Art and Sciences
TABLE LAMP, CIRCA 1910 A CAMEO GLASS AND PATINATED IRON TABLE LAMP BY DAUM, CIRCA 1910. SIGNED the lampshade in multilayer glass decorated with blue flowers on a yellow background, the frame imitating the foliage in patinated iron Quantity: 1 Signed Daum Nancy on the lampshade
Sold for 5.625 EUR at Sotheby’s in 2013
TIFFANY STUDIOS ‘Pansy’ table lamp, circa 1910 Patinated bronze, leaded glass. 53 cm high, 40.7 cm diameter Interior of shade rim impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1435 and underside of base with TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/26876.
Sold for £ 14,437 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2020
A FRENCH ‘ART NOUVEAU’ PATINATED-BRONZE LAMP EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE SHADE BY ROBERT KIME LTD., LONDON
The acanthus-clad shade terminating in spreading up-turned scroll feet and raised on a tripartite, concave-sided base, fitted for electricity 171⁄4 in. (44 cm.) high
Sold for GBP 1,250 at Christie’s in 2020
Loetz Art Nouveau iridescent art glass table lamp, in the form of a conch shell.
Sold for $2,000 at Auctions at Showplace in 2021
