In the 1970s, European lamp makers looked east and made the seated Buddha a fixture of the fashionable interior — part of the decade's broad appetite for meditation, incense, and rooms that glowed rather than glared. Ceramic figures glazed in deep colours and gold carried frosted globes above them, so the light itself seemed to hover over the figure: less a reading lamp than a mood, switched on.
This pair is European, dated by design and materials to the 1970s or 80s — presented as the period attributed to them, consistent with everything visible. Each seated Buddha is glazed ceramic in a deep burgundy, the robe's sash, hands, and trim finished in gold lustre, the whole figure supporting a frosted glass globe shade with a cut geometric band. Look at how the burgundy glaze pools darker in the folds of the robe and thins to a brighter red on the raised knees and shoulders — the natural behaviour of a flowing glaze over relief, which gives each figure of a pair its own slightly different depth of colour. The lamps arrive with the appropriate plug or adapter fitted for your country, ready to use.
Both figures and both globes are intact, the glaze and lustre in good order with only light age-consistent wear, as the photographs show. Whoever lit their evenings with this pair before you kept them well. They are ready to flank a bed, a sofa, or a console.
The pair is glazed ceramic with original glass globes, around forty to fifty years old by the attributed date. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping, with all import duties paid by us, so there is nothing to settle on delivery. Returns are accepted within 30 days.
DETAILS:
Each lamp: Height 45 cm (17.7 in) — roughly knee height, a substantial bedside scale
Glazed ceramic figures with gold lustre; frosted cut-glass globe shades
Sold as a pair
Electrical: plug or adapter fitted for the buyer's country; delivered working and ready to use
Condition: good vintage condition; ceramic, lustre, and glass intact with light age-consistent wear.
