Antique Table Lamp Lighting – a Berlin Lamp C1840
Posted on 13 February 2011
A recent addition to the Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co’s site is a German, Berlin lamp made in circa 1840, the lamp shape known as “Campana”, from the Italian, meaning “bell-shaped”.
The lamp is enamelled in an unusual chocolate ground colour and finely painted in bright colours with a large, loose bouquet of summer flowers. The lamp, with moulded and applied Satyr head handles and standing on a square based plinth, is fitted with a custom made bronze, gold plated cap.
The Berlin porcelain factory was started in 1751 and after a range of misfortunes was purchased in 1763 by Frederick, the King of Prussia.
From this time on the factory was known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory. The factory flourished throughout the 18th and 19th centuries until 1944 when allied bombing destroyed it, after which production was moved to the city of Selb.
During the period 1955-1957, the whole production was then moved back to Berlin, where today, this factory produces some of the finest porcelain in Europe.
It has been said, that “a good table lamp is hard to find”. The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co can disprove this statement and invite you to visit their web site with over 100 lamps on view.
Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.
You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com
© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery.
He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
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