Marbro Chinese Sang De Boeuf Flambé Oxblood Porcelain Table Lamp

Single Chinese Asian Sang de Boeuf oxblood porcelain vase mounted on gilt turned wood lamp base. The coloring has an overall purplish tint with hints or red and vertical striping. Re...

Single Chinese Asian Sang de Boeuf oxblood porcelain vase mounted on gilt turned wood lamp base by. Rewired with new 3 way brass socket and cord. Measures: Height top of socket 20.5"...

Single Chinese Sang De Boeuf "Oxblood" glazed vases table lamp mounted on a gilt turned wood lamp base. Rewired with new 3-way sockets and cords....

Pair of Asian Sang De Boeuf "Oxblood" vases table lamps mounted on gilt turned wood lamp bases. Rewired with new 3 way brass sockets and rayon cords. Measures: overall height top of ...

Pair of Asian Sang De Boeuf "Oxblood" glazed vases table lamps mounted on gilt turned wood lamp bases. The baluster form vases are done in a rich oxblood red burgundy coloring. Newly...

Large single) oxblood (red) porcelain vase table lamp, mounted on 23-karat water giltwood base. Interior vase cap is also turned wood in a 23-karat gilt finish. Antiqued finish hardw...

Chinese oxblood flambe lidded jar mounted as a two-light table lamp, made in Hong Kong. Provenance: Property from an estate at 180 East End Avenue.

The Marbro company was founded by Morris Markoff and his brother, hence the name "Marbro" from Markoff brothers. They started the company shortly after WWII. The company was located in a 3 story brick building in the garment district of Los Angeles, just south of Downtown right by the Santa Monica Freeway. During the time they ran the company, they sold almost as many antiques as they did lamps. Marbro sold their products mainly through interior designers and a few upscale furniture stores. Most of the products were built to order. A typical order from a designer or retailer took between 75 and 90 days to complete. Most of the components that made up the lamp bodies (ceramic, brass, glass, etc) were purchased from small companies and antique dealers around the world. For the most part, none of the bodies were made on site. . Italy was the source for alabaster, Japan and China for Porcelain, Brass in India and Crystal from Germany and France. Lamps would also be made from sculptures that customers brought to in to the shop. Once the lamp bodies arrived, a group of Marbro employees would make the wood bases, spin the metal caps, make the shades, and do the painting and tinting. With the help of about 20-40 other true world class artisans, metal workers, finishers and handmade shade makers, they produced lamps and shades that were truly some of last of their kind of art. Here we have an astonishing example of Marbro production. This mid to late 18th century lusciously oxblood lacquered "sang de boeuf" Chinese urn was almost certainly a custom commission by a client, the owner of the Qing urn. The exceptional quality of the urn, it's size, gentle proportions, the even application of the oxblood glaze (especially over the stunning elephant handles) are of a quality that I have not seen before in a lamp. The Marbro artisans truly did right by their client, as they allowed the exceptional form and color of the Chinese antique take center stage. The simple base follows the proportion of the body yet perfectly echoes the angle and curve of the elephant trunk handles. Victorian lampshade...

Of ovoid form; mounted on a turned giltwood base. Note: Height to Top of Vase: 12.5 inches

A superb pair of large Chinese sang de boeuf baluster vases, with a particularly good deep glaze colour, now mounted as lamps with hand gilded turned bases. Height of vases:  23 1/4...

A fine pair of Chinese porcelain sang de boeuf vases, the necks with superb stylised stags heads, now mounted as lamps with a hand gilded turned base. Wonderful deep glaze with craqu...

A pair of Chinese Sang de Boeuf lamps with fu lion head handles.