Hard to find great white bird garden lighting lantern with 30″ antique chain

Japan, this hard to find and visually appealing heavy duty quality garden lighting lantern is heavily cast and crafted for a lifetime!

We will include an original hand wrought antique 30 inch iron chain as shown which will allow you even more flexible display.

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

From a top it’s iconic designed head and wings to its prolific artistic pierced wing panels- well they burst brilliant night light in all directions!

Dimensions: 38 inches tall to top of chain (lantern only is 9.5 inches tall and 7 inches wide at wings

Good garden candidate- it is an ideal accent size for a small outdoor or indoor Zen or Tea garden.

Photographed in natural day light and night light for your visual pleasure.

Provenance: Old American- Japanese garden.

Many of our customers place LED, candles or tea lights inside the main section making a romantic and enjoyable decorative accent for entertaining friends and family. It’s a perfect choice for your indoor or outdoor garden space.

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

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.