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Porcelain Insulators

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Black Gold Measurement Insulator Paperweight Vintage
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in North Miami, FL
This vintage Piero Fornasetti porcelain insulator paperweight is gold with a black background
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Gold

Endre László Szász for Hollohaza Porcelain Violin
By Endre Szasz
Located in Delft, NL
few years Hollohazi Porcelain manufactured only industrial porcelain insulators. New artistic pieces
Category

20th Century Hungarian Musical Instruments

Materials

Porcelain

1920s Neoclassical Revival Trenton Potteries Footed Vase
By Trenton Potteries
Located in Garnerville, NY
produced home fixtures or sanitary porcelain like tubs, sinks, electric insulators, and glove molds right
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Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund Lamp
By Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund
Located in Doylestown, PA
business was in the production of techni- cal ceramics - namely porcelain insulators - until a factory fire
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Ceramic

Antonia Campi Tea Service for Six in Porcelain and Gold by Laveno 1950s
By S.C.I. Laveno, Antonia Campi
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
plant was built, following an agreement with the German Rosenthal company, for producing porcelain
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets

Materials

Gold

Bauhaus Hutschenreuther Selb Silver-clad Tea and Coffee Set
By Hutschenreuther
Located in Los Angeles, CA
plated thermal insulators lined with felt covering the pots. Sold as a set. Dimensions listed are for
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Vintage 1930s Bauhaus Tea Sets

Materials

Silver, Silver Plate

Cement Bordeaux Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Concrete

Cement Bordeaux Table Lamp
Cement Bordeaux Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
Cement Gray Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Cement, Copper

Cement Gray Table Lamp
Cement Gray Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
NITA Contemporary Brown Enameled Ceramic & Brushed Copper Floor Lamp
Located in Milano, IT
employs recyclable, metalized ceramic insulator modules — conventionally used in electrical grids and
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2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Copper, Enamel

NITA Contemporary Brown Enameled Ceramic & Brushed Copper Ceiling Lights
Located in Milano, IT
employs recyclable, metalized ceramic insulator modules — conventionally used in electrical grids and
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2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Copper, Enamel

Nita Contemporary Brown Ceramic & Brushed Copper, 2 Part Modular Ceiling Light
Located in Milano, IT
employs recyclable, metalized ceramic insulator modules — conventionally used in electrical grids and
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2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Copper, Enamel

NITA Contemporary Brown Ceramic & Brushed Copper - 3 Part Modular Ceiling Light
Located in Milano, IT
employs recyclable, metalized ceramic insulator modules — conventionally used in electrical grids and
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2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Copper, Enamel

Cement - White Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Cement, Copper

Cement - White Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
Cement Yellow Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Cement, Copper

Cement Yellow Table Lamp
Cement Yellow Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
Cement Light Blue Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Cement, Copper

Cement Light Blue Table Lamp
Cement Light Blue Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
Cement Rattan Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Cement, Copper

Cement Rattan Table Lamp
Cement Rattan Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
Cement Turquoise Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Cement, Copper

Cement Turquoise Table Lamp
Cement Turquoise Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in
Cement Strawberry Table Lamp
By Servomuto
Located in Milan, IT
old porcelain electrical insulator. The concrete has a wax finish and a silky touch. The light bulb
Category

2010s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Copper

Cement Strawberry Table Lamp
Cement Strawberry Table Lamp
H 22.84 in W 13 in D 9.06 in

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Fornasetti Bookends Strumenti Musicali Gold on Red Metal
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
There can be wit and unpredictability in the order: this was Fornasetti idea when he designed his first bookends. The mix of images with their functional design make these accessorie...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Bookends

Materials

Metal

Fornasetti Rectangular Tray Coromandel Silver Leaf on Carmine Red
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
Like all Fornasetti accessories, the tray is handcrafted using original artisan techniques. This tray is silk-screened by hand, painted by hand and covered with a smooth lacquer. Me...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tray Tables

Materials

Wood

Meissen Porcelain Chinoiserie "Gold Dragon" Flower-Encrusted Garniture
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
A Meissen porcelain ‘Gold Dragon’ pattern three-piece garniture. A Meissen porcelain reticulated three-piece basket Garniture and stands. Late 1800s, blue crossed swords marks ...
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Antique Late 19th Century German Rococo Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Antique Early American Oak Table with Drawer Early 20th Century
Located in Hawthorne, CA
Early 20th century American oak table with drawer / small desk. Beautiful simple design and handmade curvature. Overall great vintage condition, some light wear present. 32" W 20.2...
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Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Console Tables

Materials

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Porcelain figurine musicians by Meissen, 19th Century
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Lisbon, PT
A Saxony art piece, large polychrome porcelain of a figurine of a male violinist and a women`s percussionist musicians decorated in the pierrot. A dreamlike motif of youth playing mu...
Category

Antique 19th Century German Baroque Revival Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Clairtone Project G2 Series T11 Console Stereo System & Garrard Turntable
By Clairtone
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
On offer is a rare completely original Clairtone G2 Series Home Stereo System from 1966 featuring two distinct exotic wooden boxes one that houses the tuner and the turntable both pr...
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments

Materials

Aluminum

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain and Gilded Appetizer Bowls Midcentury Barware Set / 6
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in North Miami, FL
These fabulous small Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti vintage appetizer small serving bowls are porcelain with gilded gold edges, bottom and insides. They are the complete set of ...
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

Materials

Gold

Endre László Szász for Hollohaza Porcelain Leather Small Jewelry Box Signed
Located in San Diego, CA
Endre László Szász for Hollohaza Porcelain tile elegant jewelry box hard to find item , nice elegant trinket box .
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20th Century Hungarian Mid-Century Modern Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Leather

'Pompeiana' Corner Cabinet by Piero Fornasetti, Italy, 2 of 2 in 1988, Signed
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 'much larger than it looks' collectors item is the 'Pompeiana' corner cabinet by Piero Fornasetti, completed in 1988, signed, dated and numbered 2 of 2. Fornasetti cabinets, es...
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Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Corner Cupboards

Materials

Brass

Chinese Porcelain Hand Painted Monkey Fish Footbath Planter Jardinière Cache Pot
Located in Dayton, OH
Beautiful vintage Chinese foot bath with climbing monkeys and innet fish motif, circa last quarter 20th century. Made from porcelain with a polychrome finish and gold plated handles....
Category

Late 20th Century Chinoiserie Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières

Materials

Porcelain

Monumental Dansk Staved Teak Bucket Style Ice Bucket by Jens Quistgaard
By Dansk, Jens Quistgaard
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome and iconic staved teak ice bucket by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk. This is the monumental 19.25-inch-tall example. It is in outstanding vintage condition, circa 1950s-1960s. ...
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Materials

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JAPANESE BRONZE Meiji Period Low Oval Bowl with two full-body writing dragons
Located in Buffalo, NY
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Materials

Bronze

Large Vintage Gold Smith Leather Boxing Gloves c.1950 (FREE SHIPPING)
By Wilson Sporting Goods
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Early 20th Century American Industrial Sports Equipment and Memorabilia

Materials

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Box Piero Fornasetti
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Krefeld, DE
Box. Piero Fornasetti. Marked with a sticker: Fornasetti made in Italy.
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Box Piero Fornasetti
Box Piero Fornasetti
H 1.97 in W 7.09 in D 4.34 in
Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Ceramic "Libra" Pebble Paperweight
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Zodiac "Libra" Pebble Paperweight, Original Gold Box, 1960s This rare Piero Fornasetti Ceramic pebble paperweight in its original gold presentation box....
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Ceramic

Ed Sketching at Red Rocks, Vintage 1940s Original Mountain Landscape, Colorado
By Vance Kirkland
Located in Denver, CO
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

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20th Century Italian Double Light Chandelier with Porcelain Decoration, 1940s
Located in Florence, IT
20th century Italian double light black iron and cast iron chandelier with porcelain Insulator
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Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Metal, Iron

Antique Cobalt Blue Porcelain Insulator as Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large(13" H) heavy (14.75 lbs.) collectible, porcelain insulator as a striking table lamp
Category

Early 20th Century American Industrial Table Lamps

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Insulator Paperweight, "The New Key to Dreams"
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
This is a great piece from Italian designer Piero Fornasetti's line of ceramic insulators, cleverly
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Piero Fornasetti Insulator Paperweight "The New Key To Dreams"
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti insulator paperweight- "The New Key To Dreams", Late 1950's This is a
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Porcelain Street Lamp - Outrigged Insulators
Located in Peekskill, NY
I love the look of these early street lamps... Complex and all business. A bit Tesla and Frankenstein. This is a beautiful and impressive example.
Category

Early 20th Century American Chandeliers and Pendants

Porcelain Pipe Insulator Coverted into Lamp with Contempory Bronze Base
Located in New York City, NY
This Vintage Ceramic Pipe Insulator was converted into a table lamp with beautiful all patinated
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20th Century French Table Lamps

Materials

Bronze

Piero Fornasetti Insulator Paperweight, "The New Key to Dreams".
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti's line of ceramic insulators cleverly repurposed into paperweight pen rests and
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Piero Fornasetti "Key to Dreams" Insulator Paperweight, 1950s
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
This is a great piece from Italian designer Piero Fornasetti's line of ceramic insulators, cleverly
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Porcelain

Tesla Cast Iron and porcelain Pendent Lamps
Located in Peekskill, NY
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Located in Chapel Hill, NC
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Antique 1720s English George I Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

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Located in Peekskill, NY
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20th Century American Industrial Chandeliers and Pendants

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Located in Peekskill, NY
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20th Century American More Furniture and Collectibles

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Aluminum

17" Diameter Tesla lamps
17" Diameter Tesla lamps
H 17 in Dm 17 in
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By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
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Vintage 1960s Italian Paperweights

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By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain insulator printed with “the new key to dreams” (Italian version). Marked Fornasetti
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Vintage 1960s Italian Paperweights

Materials

Ceramic

Vintage Piero Fornasetti Insulator Paperweight, The New Key To Dreams, Late 1950
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Insulator Paperweight- The New Key To Dreams, Late 1950s This is a
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Nato Call Letters Paperweight, 1950s
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

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Porcelain

Vintage Piero Fornasetti "Key to Dreams" Insulator Paperweight, 1950s
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
This is a great piece from Italian designer Piero Fornasetti's line of ceramic insulators, cleverly
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Porcelain

French Ricard Midcentury Cafe Barware Water Pitcher or Jug, set of 4
Located in Atlanta, GA
porcelain." A stoneware is composed of kaolin and feldspar used as the basis for the formation of a glassy
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Located in San Francisco, CA
high voltage porcelain insulators now mounted as lamps crowned with elegant linen shades
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Vintage 1960s American Table Lamps

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By Fornasetti
Located in Paris, FR
Porcelain insulator printed with “For your telephone messages..." Marked Fornasetti Milano made in
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Porcelain

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Located in Brussels, BE
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Vintage 1930s German Table Lamps

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of lamps
Pair of lamps
H 25.99 in Dm 11.82 in
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Located in Boston, MA
A unique pair or porcelain & metal table lamps. Formally old electrical insulators.
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20th Century French Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Paperweight Clé Des Songes by Piero Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Paris, FR
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights

Materials

Porcelain

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Porcelain Insulators For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a range of porcelain insulators for sale on 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, ceramic and copper, all porcelain insulators available were constructed with great care. Find 7 antique and vintage porcelain insulators at 1stDibs now, or shop our selection of 12 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished furniture. There are all kinds of porcelain insulators available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. modern, mid-century modern and Georgian porcelain insulators are consistently popular styles. Many porcelain insulators are appealing in their simplicity, but Servomuto, Antonia Campi and Endre Szasz produced popular porcelain insulators that are worth a look.

How Much are Porcelain Insulators?

Porcelain insulators can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $985, while the lowest priced sells for $316 and the highest can go for as much as $6,915.