Pineapple Lantern

This design by Edward F. Caldwell combines elements of classical Chinese Chippendale (18th century) style and Brighton Pavillion(19th century) style with a triple dome pagoda top in ...

American (glass attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts), circa 1830-1840. Glass, blown, partially frosted, and wheel cut, with cast and die-rolled brass, patinated. This hanging lamp is typical of the production of such lanterns by the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, during the 1830s, and perhaps as late as the early 1840s. The present example is an unusually elaborate specimen with its overall frosting and cutting. In their The Glass Industry in Sandwich, II (1989), Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser quote Boston & Sandwich Glass Company manager Deming Jarves on the fabrication of lamps of this general type (p. 225 no. 2398). These hanging lanterns could be supplied with a candle or with a peg lamp...

Bronze and crystal lantern. Measures: Diameter 22 cm. Height fixture 55 cm. Total height including the chain and canopy 105 cm. Weight 5 kg.

This fixture is very much in the Moorish taste, orientalism, a romantic view of the Levant, was expressed in paintings furniture and in this case lighting. Often such a lamp was used...

The Chanteloup Lantern by David Duncan Lighting. This artisan crafted, six-sided hanging lantern has been designed in an elegant style. The Chanteloup Lantern features a geometric ga...

The Caldwell Lantern is silver-plated in an orientalist form of a tassel. This Whimsical Lantern is fashioned to resemble a hand tied corded knot com...