Hard to find baby piglet lantern that bursts with brilliant night light.

Brilliantly designed and a handsome lantern to admire at night.

Japan, this handsome quality old style pig motif iron garden lantern is an exceptionally rare find in this small diminutive size and an authentic old work of art. It survives with its original warm garden patina.

Created to original eponymous master craftsmanship standards, this wonderful pig is an especially hard to find size and style and will be highly coveted in years ahead. Many of our customers place LED or candles or tea lights inside the bottom of the main section with twist off candle cap making a romantic and enjoyable decorative accent for entertaining friends and family.

In a convenient portable size, it may be suspended from its iron loop or installed on any surface.

Dimensions: 5 inches tall to top of loop and 6.5 inches long.

Good garden candidate with attractive and prolific pierced perforations that burst with shining light at night. This rare pig is an ideal accent size for your favorite indoor display, or for a special outdoor garden space.

Provenance: Old American, Japanese garden.

An excellent choice for your indoor or outdoor garden spaces.

Lifetime guarantee of authenticity.
Our gallery based in Newport, Rhode Island USA has been dealing in authentic Pre-Columbian, Japanese and fine Asian art, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. Our president personally travels across America as well as 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.

History of Japanese lanterns:

In Japan a to¯ro¯ (lantern) is a traditional lantern made of stone, wood, or metal. Like many other elements of Japanese traditional architecture, it originated in China. In Japan, to¯ro¯ were originally used only in Buddhist temples, where they lined and illuminated paths and lighted lanterns were then considered an offering. In its complete, original form the lantern represents five elements of Buddhist cosmology: Bottom touching the ground, represents chi, the earth, the next section represents sui, or water, ka or fire, is represented by the section encasing the lantern’s light or flame, while fu¯ (air) and ku¯ (void or spirit) are represented by the last two sections, top-most and pointing towards the sky. These last two sections express the IDEA that after death our physical bodies will go back to their original, elemental form.