Antique French Empire Style Gilt Metal Urn LampGreen-Painted Body with Pleated Shade

DETAILS:
Size: approx. 46 cm high with shade (18 inches); 25 cm wide with shade (10 inches); base approx. 13.5 cm wide (5.25 inches)
Material: gilt metal with painted (green) ground
Style-Period: Empire style
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — we handle the paperwork
Electrical: Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use.
Condition: good vintage condition; painted ground even and undisturbed, gilt metal fittings with light age wear, base stable
Lampshade: pleated fabric shade included as shown
Returns: accepted within 30 days.

The urn was one of the great borrowed forms of the neoclassical revival — lifted from ancient funerary and garden vessels and pressed into service as everything from mantel ornament to lamp base, its swelling profile and stepped foot instantly recognisable across a century of French decorative taste. This lamp keeps that lineage intact, the urn shape doing the same job it always did: holding the eye at the centre of a room.

This is a table lamp in gilt metal with an urn-form body finished in a deep green painted ground, banded above by a guilloché-cast gilt collar — guilloché being the engine-turned, interlocking wave pattern common to Empire and Restauration metalwork — and below by a ring of stiff acanthus leaves at the socket of a turned, beaded column base. The green ground against gilt metal is a pairing seen often on French urn lamps of this general type, imitating the look of patinated bronze against ormolu mounts without our making either metal claim as fact. A pleated fabric shade in ivory-white completes the piece.

It reaches us with a sound, stable body, the green painted ground even and undisturbed, and the gilt metal fittings showing only light wear consistent with age. We pass it on as received, its finish left to speak for itself rather than refreshed. On a desk, sideboard, or bedside table, its solid, columnar presence anchors the surface around it.

In plain terms: a French Empire-style gilt metal urn lamp with a green painted body, in the Empire style, standing about as tall as a car's steering wheel is wide, fitted with a B22 socket and rewired for safe, ready-to-use lighting, with a pleated shade included.

Condition

Electrical details

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A decorative style is not a guarantee of a particular maker or date. See the individual listing for the stated attribution and period.

Worldwide delivery is included in the price. Every piece is individually packed, tracked and fully insured. No shipping charge is added at checkout. If your destination is not listed, please contact us before ordering.

European Union: no customs and no import charges. Delivery usually takes 2–5 working days after dispatch.

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United Kingdom: UK import VAT is payable on delivery (5% for antiques over 100 years old, otherwise 20%).

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Notify us within 30 days of delivery if you wish to return a piece. No reason is required. Returns are free within the Netherlands and Belgium; from elsewhere you pay return shipping for a change-of-mind return.

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