English Green Tole Tea Canister Lamp on Custom Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
A striking green tole tea canister lamp from England, transformed into a one of a kind lighting piece.
Antique 1890s English Table Lamps
Metal
English Green Tole Tea Canister Lamp on Custom Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
A striking green tole tea canister lamp from England, transformed into a one of a kind lighting piece.
Metal
Pair of Vintage "Numbered" Tole Canister Lamps with Tole Shades
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Pair of Vintage "Numbered" Tole Tea Canister Lamps with original Tole Shades.
Metal
Vintage Tole Tea Cannister Lamp
Located in Bradenton, FL
Vintage Tole Tea Canister Lamp, creatively repurposed from a a decorative metal tea tin and transformed into a statement lighting piece.
Metal
Chinoiserie Tea Canister Tole Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Black-on-gold tole lamp is decorated with engravings of doubly repeated Chinese figures in a fantasy garden, as well as bands of Greek Revival motif top and bottom. Lamp sits on blac...
Metal
Frederick Cooper Tea Canister Tole Lamp
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Vintage tea canister tole lamp finished overall in black with a decorative gilt number 84 and foliate designs in gold, green, and oxblood color.
Metal
Early 20th Century French Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps – Pair
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A pair of early 20th century French tole tea canisters, later converted into table lamps.
Metal
Vintage Chinoiserie English Tole Metal Tea Canister Chinese Painted Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie English Tole Metal Tea Canister Chinese Painted Table Lamp, Made in Great Britain.
Metal
Vintage Chinoiserie Tole Metal Square English Tea Canister Table Lamps - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie Tole Metal Square Paint Decorated English Tea Canister Table Lamps - a Pair.
Metal
Pair of English Red Tole Peinte Tea Canister Lamps with Orientalist Landscapes
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 19th c., England, a pair of red enameled sheet metal tole table lamps, painted with Orientalist landscapes. The landscapes are encircled by a gold painted border. Each of the tw...
Brass, Sheet Metal, Enamel
Vintage Chinoiserie Red Tole Metal Tea Canister Table Lamp by Vaughan Design Ltd
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinoiserie Red Tole Metal Tea Canister Table Lamp by Vaughan Design Ltd.
Metal
A fine 19th century English Regency tole and hand painted tea canister lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century English Regency tole lamp. Hand painted in the Chinoiserie design. Fine painting and details. Large pagoda design . Custom wired and shaded
Tin
Antique Pair of English Black and Gold Tole Tea Canisters Adapted to Table Lamps
Located in Morristown, NJ
A pair of late 19th c. tea canisters adapted to table lamps each with 3 bulb sockets. With gold painted decorated black enameled metal, each rectangular canister is decorated with bu...
Metal, Brass
Large English Neo-Classical Cannister Style Tole Metal Table Lamps - Pair
By John Richard
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is an offering for a pair of large scale tole tea canister style table lamps designed by John Richard.
Metal
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H 12 in W 5.38 in D 5.38 in
1950s Chinoiserie Red and Black Tole Tea Canister Lamp with Leather Details
Located in Richmond, VA
Listed is a gorgeous, petite 1950s chinoiserie red and black tole tea canister lamp. Lovely detailing all-over the octagonal canister, which is complimented by the deep red/burgundy ...
Metal
19th Century Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Nashville, TN
A stunning tole, or painted metal, tea canister from the late 19th century, fashioned into a lamp with a gorgeous shade (included).
Metal
Pair of English Tole Tea Canister lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of semi-cylinder English shop tole tea canisters with original black and gold decoration in the chinoisserie style on a green ground now mounted and newly wired as lamps with ...
Pair of Green and Gilt Decorated Tôle Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A pair of English tea cannisters adapted into lamps, redecorated with later painted and gilded chinoiserie decoration. Gold lined black “parchment” shades. 20th century.
Tôle
Green Tole Tea Canister
Located in Stonington, CT
Now mounted as a lamp, this tea canister has the most unusual, and unique, picture on its front. It displays a punishment scene, with a man seated and put into what appears to be a s...
Tôle
Unavailable
Tole tea canister and cover
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Tole tea canister and cover, with parrot green ground color highlighted in gilt and black decoration in the Chinese taste. England, circa l850. Mounted on a turned wood base, el...
Pair of Chinoiserie Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Classic chinese export tea canisters made into lamps with decadent but worn vintage custom shades.
Tôle
Pair of Mid-19th Century Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps, circa 1860
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
This is a rather charming pair of mid-19th century tole tea canister table lamps, re-wired and PAT tested, circa 1860.
Metal
A pair of 19thC tea canister lamps
Located in Grange-Over-Sands, GB
A pair of late 19thC tole tea canisters converted to lamps. The shades (which are a little worn) are included.
Tin
Pair of Chinoiserie Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of chinoiserie tole tea canister lamps.
Tôle
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H 20 in Dm 10 in L 20 in
Robust Pair of English Chinoiserie Style Red Painted Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
A robust pair of English chinoiserie style Chinese-red painted tole tea canister lamps; each painted canister adorned overall with painted figures amid a gilded and painted landscape...
Antique Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Norwalk, CT
Chinoiserie themed tea canister in Chinese red with gilded decoration. Nice scale; wonderful patina.
Tôle
English Victorian Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Essex, MA
Typical form, great color and petina.
Tin
English 19th Century Tole Tea Canister Lamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
A painted tole tea canister wired into a lamp with painted chinoiserie scene of an exotic figure with gilt decoration and foliage over black background For many more fine antique...
Tôle
1880s Orange # 5 Tole Tea Canister lamp
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1880s tole tea canister turned into a lamp.The height is to the top of the socket.
Metal
A Pair of English Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A pair of octagonal English tole tea canisters with hand painted and stenciled decoration on a red ground with gilt reserve, the center panel having a Chinese figure on a gilt ground...
Pair of 1920s Red Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Charlottesville, VA
This is a beautiful pair of tea canister lamps. They are decorated in the chinoiserie style.
Metal
Pair of Victorian Green Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Green cylindrical form numbered 3 and 4, two-light, black painted wood bases.
Chinese Export Green Painted and Gilt Tôle Tea Canister Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Of cylindrical form with incurved top; elaborately decorated with a central cartouche enclosing a Mandarin figure leaning against tea chests set above the number 11, flanked by pseud...
Metal, Brass
Pair of English Green and Gilt Tôle Tea Canister Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Each of cylindrical form with rounded cap, painted in yellow with a three-dimensional "9" on one and a "6" on the other, between gilt bands decorated with floral sprays. Later fitted...
Metal, Brass
Tole Tea Cannister Lamp
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
19th century red tole tea canister lamp with Chinese figures. The height to top of the shade is 31" and the height of the tole tea canister is 18"
Tôle
Tea Canister Tole Lamp
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Vintage tea canister tole lamp finished in an ox blood color with a decorative gilt number 48 and foliate designs.
Metal
French Tea Canister Tole Lamp
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Rio Vista, CA
French Provincial style tea canister tole lamp finished in mustard yellow with French country scenes.
19th Century Tole Peinte Tea Canister Now A Lamp
Located in Nashville, TN
A 19th century English tea canister,now fitted as a table lamp, the urn form with domed cover, decorated with the shaded number '42' in multiple shades of gilt .& red with decorati...
Tôle
English Tole Tea Canister Mounted as a Lamp, Great Color
Located in Buchanan, MI
English tole tea canister mounted as lamp. Great color.
Tôle
Outstanding Pair of Red Tole Tea Canisters Mounted as Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very fine pair of red Chinese tea canisters now as lamps, numbered 3 and 4 respectively, each with gilt fretwork banding enclosing a polychrome Chinoiserie vignette related to the...
Tôle
19th Century English Hand Painted Tole Tea Canister Table Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a bedside table, or a side table in a living room with this elegant antique canister lamp. Created in England, circa 1890 and made of tole, the large tea box features the wo...
Tôle
19th Century Chinoiserie Export Tole Tea Canister Table Lamp
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Chinese export tole tea canister, mounted as a table lamp. A large general store tin tea caddy dating from the China Trade period, with later Chinoiserie hand painted de...
Tin
Late Regency Chinoiserie Decorated Tole Tea Canister
Located in Nashville, TN
With distress (delicious if you like distress) finish. Bright and colorful decoration to the canister. Now mounted as lamp. Rare canister shape. Paint loss. Apparently with a sea...
Pair of Oriental Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Stamford, CT
A pair of antique tole,gilt and painted oriental tea canisters now as lamps.
Tôle
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H 30 in W 9.5 in D 7.5 in
Pair of 19th Century English Painted Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps with Shades
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate bedside tables in a master bedroom, or side tables in a living room with this elegant pair of antique canister lamps. Created in England, circa 1890 and made of tole, each l...
Tôle
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H 36 in W 11.75 in D 11.75 in
Pair of 19th Century English Painted and Gilt Tole Tea Canisters Table Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate bedside tables or side tables in a living room with this elegant pair of antique table lamps. Created in England, circa 1900 and made of tole, each large tea box features ex...
Tôle
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H 31 in W 11.75 in D 11.75 in
Pair of 19th Century French Painted Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps with Shades
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate bedside tables in a master bedroom, or side tables in a living room with this elegant pair of antique lamps. Created in France, circa 1890 and made of tole, each large tea b...
Tôle
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H 33 in W 12.5 in D 10 in
Large English Antique Bartlett & Son Japanned Tole Tea Canister Now a Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
A well-executed and large-scaled English antique Bartlett & Son Japanned tole tea canister now mounted as a lamp; this good example of an antique tole tea canister of oval cylindrica...
Pair of Vintage Orange Tole & Leather Wrapped English Tea Canister Table Lamps
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Early to Mid 20th Century pair of vintage French style burnt orange tole metal and leather wrapped English tea canister shaped lamps.
A Pair of Chinese Tea Canisters Converted to Lamps
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A pair of Chinese tea canisters converted to lamps in the early 20th C. Beautiful painted figures. Newly wired. Please visit our website at www.fshenemaderantiques.com .
Tôle
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H 31 in W 12 in D 9.5 in
Pair of Antique English Red Tole and Gilt Tea Canister Lamps on Lucite Bases
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A pair of large oval English tole tea canisters with hand painted and stenciled decoration on a red ground with gilt reserve, the center panel having a Chinese figure on a gilt groun...
Metal, Gold Leaf
19th c. English Shop Display Tea Canister
Located in Greenwich, CT
A 19th century English shop display tole tea canister with original black and gold decoration in the chinoisserie style.
Tôle
Pair of Regency Tea Canisters with Chinese Script, Now as Table Lamps
Located in London, GB
A pair of early 19th century tea canisters decorated with red Chinese script and gilt foliate designs, now converted as lamps Please note: Lampshades not included. Currently wi...
Tôle
19th century Chinese Export Tole Lamp
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Chinese Export painted tole tea canister transformed into a lamp
19th Century English Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Water Mill, NY
Pair of tole hand-painted 19th century English tea canisters made into lamps.
Pair of Chinoiserie Decorated Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Matching pair of English chinoiserie style tole tea canister table lamps. Lidded rectangular forms with gilt and red painted Asian scenes over a black ground.
Metal, Brass
English Black and Gilt-Decorated Tôle Tea Canister Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Of cylindrical form; decorated with a large gilt and red letter "A" and gilt fretwork banding, on a black ground. Later mounted as a lamp with brass double bulb sockets and adjustabl...
Metal, Brass
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H 36 in W 13 in D 13 in
Large Antique English Tole Tea Canister Lamp Black & Gold Chinoiserie Decoration
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 19th c. , a lovely large black and gold painted hexagonal English tea canister with Chinoiserie decoration, mounted as 3-light table lamp with a tall brass finial. Once a tea c...
Metal
Pair of Chinese Export Midnight Blue and Gilt-Tole Tea Canister Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Each of cylindrical form with corresponding domed caps decorated with broad gilt banding; the shoulders centering plain gilt shields and a thin gilt band, the bodies with a front pan...
Metal, Brass
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H 30 in W 16 in D 16 in
Victorian Red and Gold Tole Tea Canister Lamps with Black Card Shades - A Pair
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 19th c., England, a pair of gilt and red enameled sheet metal tea canister table lamps, decorated with robed Mandarin figures standing by tea boxes and framed by faux-Chinese ch...
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
Chinoiserie Tea Canister Mounted As Lamp
Located in Nashville, TN
Scarlet red tea canister , polygon form The front three panels with gilt decorations in japanned or chinoiserie taste . The rounded lid with gilt trim . Back stamped ' Bartlett and ...
Tôle
Chinoiserie Tea Canister Tole Lamp
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Tea canister tole lamp hand-painted in the Asian taste featuring an Imperial red background.
Chinese Porcelain Tole Tea Canister Table Lamp
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stylish Chinese porcelain tea canister style table lamp featuring a gilt painted Asian themed decoration and a hexagon shape. Supported by a conforming brass metal base and brass har...
Brass
Pair of Victorian Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Mustard yellow tea canisters with chinoiserie decoration on each, depicting a figure and a small dwelling.
Pair of Victorian Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Green painted tea canisters from Parnall & Sons, Bristol, featuring scenes of Asian men and women performing daily routines.
Other
Antique English Tole Painted Tea Canister Lamp, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique tole painted and gilt tea canister converted to a lamp.
Tin
Tea Canister Table Lamp
Located in Tarrytown, NY
19th century tole tea canister turned into a table lamp.
Pair of Tole “H” Tea Canister Lamps by Woolpit Interiors
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Pair of tole “H” tea canister lamps by Woolpit Interiors of England.
Metal
Late Regency Chinoiserie Decorated Tole Tea Canister
Located in Nashville, TN
With distress (delicious if you like distress) finish. Bright and colorful decoration to the canister. Now mounted as lamp. Sturdy and sound with extensive wear to finish. Paint l...
Sold
H 30 in Dm 10.5 in
Pair of 19th Century English Painted Tole Tea Canister Table Lamps with Shades
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate bedside tables in a master bedroom, or side tables in a living room with this elegant pair of antique lamps. Created in England, circa 1890 and made of tole, each large tea ...
Tôle
Antique Painted Tea Canister Lamps, England 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of genuine tole painted tea canisters now converted to lamps.
Tôle, Tin
Frederick Cooper Chinoiserie Table Lamps Vintage Circa 1950’s
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Set of two vintage 1950’s Frederick Cooper Chinoiserie table lamps. Vintage Frederick Cooper Asian tea tin canister turned into table Lamps, Vintage table lamps, one large, one small...
Metal
$658Sale Price / set|30% Off
H 18.75 in W 7.5 in D 8.25 in
2 Brass Chinoiserie Hollywood Regency Octagonal Tea Caddy Canister Table Lamps
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of late 20th century Hollywood Regency / Chinoiserie octagonal brass tea caddy / canister shaped table lamps with black wood bases. Dimensions: 8.25" x 7.5" x 18.75" / Total H...
Brass
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