Special Antique Lighting Emits Glow of Light

Japan, a fine large vintage hand crafted lantern with exquisite details from the Showa (1940s) period.
May be suspended from its loop handle or placed on any surface as it includes heavy cast feet.

This handsome large Lantern was enhanced with new interior paper and a new electric light for dramatic visual enjoyment.

Dimensions: 18 inches high to top of loop handle and 15 inches diameter

The striking and well proportioned older lantern is fashioned in bronze as roof kasa and light chamber or base Hibukuro or kiso all with patina from good age.

Notice the lovely flying crane bronze bird form motif grills on all sides and intricately engraved panels. The top boasts sturdy extended roof beams and wavy cloud like pattern pierced cut outs.

Hand crafted from thick bronze sheet.

Dimensions: 18 inches tall and 15 inches diameter

Provenance: Old Japanese collection

Lifetime guarantee of authenticity: All of our Asian works of art come with our lifetime authenticity guarantee.

We have been dealing in authentic Japanese and fine Asian art, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. Our president personally travels to Japan and Europe each year to meet his network partners who assist him in finding best examples. He personally inspects each antique work of art to ensure its old age, authenticity and quality condition.

About Japanese lanterns.

Japan’s stone lantern tradition is a concept that was imported from India and has existed in Japanese temples and gardens since the 7th century.

Japan’s lantern tradition was originally conceived as entrance lighting and guardians to temples and pagodas and when lit served as an offering to Buddha. Some of the earliest stone lanterns were carved with Buddhist images on the firebox and usually had compartments for an oil lamp or candle. Later on, they became more secular in nature, and their use evolved as functional and decorative elements in traditional Japanese tea gardens where they served as a spiritual source of light for evening tea ceremonies. Often carved from granite stone, today’s vintage survivors serve as fashionable aesthetic elements in modern day Japanese and Asian inspired gardens. Today, during festivals and ceremonies, rice paper is often cut to fit stone lantern windows to increase reflection of candles placed inside them. Soon these paper lenses disappear and for one special evening and event, the glow is surreal.