Japanese Stone Lantern Organic, Deep Red Color, Spirit Style Indoor or Outdoor

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Japanese Stone Lantern Organic, Deep Red Color, Spirit Style Indoor or Outdoor

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Here's a beautiful and unique way to accent your indoor or outdoor garden space with this rare treasure from Japan. From an old Japanese Nagoya garden comes this authentic, handsome, and hard to find "Spirit" style stone lantern hand-carved from a rich iron red volcanic rock, 30" high and 16" wide at top and 12" deep, two pieces, Showa period, 1940s-1960s. See historical information below. This scarcer size and style lantern would make an ideal choice for any intimate indoor or outdoor installation. Many of our customers place "oil candles" inside the main sections making a romantic and enjoyable decorative accent for entertaining friends and family. They are a perfect choice for your indoor or outdoor garden space. This lantern is one-of-a-kind and comes from an old Japanese Nagoya area garden. Schneible Fine Arts has been dealing in authentic Japanese antique garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for many years. Mr. Schneible personally travels to Japan each year to meet his network partners who assist him in finding best examples. He personally inspects each antique ornament to ensure its old age, authenticity, and quality condition. After accumulating a group, they are imported to Vermont and Maine in large containers. This method keeps shipping costs low and enables us to offer them to you at reasonable prices. We carefully pack and ship to clients all-over the USA and at reasonable shipping costs. Lifetime guarantee of authenticity: All of our Asian works of art come with our Lifetime Authenticity Guarantee. We are members of the North American Japanese Garden Association (NAJGA) specializing for ten years now in old and authentic Japanese stone garden ornaments. Brief history of Japanese lanterns: Japan’s lantern tradition was imported from India yet has existed in Japanese temples and gardens since the seventh century. They were originally conceived as entrance lighting and guardians 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. Today’s vintage survivors serve as fashionable aesthetic elements in modern day Japanese and Asian inspired gardens. There are four main categories of antique Japanese stone lanterns. Tachi-gata are pedestal lanterns such as the famous Kasuga lanterns, ikekome-gata are the so-called buried lanterns, oki-gata are small often portable lanterns, and yukimi-gata are sometimes commonly mis-described as "snow viewing" lanterns but in fact were often installed near water. Finally "spirit" lanterns assembled from natural stones were popular in moutainous areas of Japan and are thought to repel ill spirits via the round firebox/portal. The Kasuga lantern is fashioned after the ancient lanterns found in Shinto shrines of Nara, Japan and some date back to 700 AD. Kasuga lanterns are frequently seen at entrances to Japanese tea gardens and as a focal point to modern day gardens. Oki-gata, small portable lanterns are among the rarest of all because few were created and fewer still survived the ravages of time. Our collection of Japanese stone lanterns represents a decade of research and networking. Our goal was simple: to acquire only the finest most significant examples from private collections and gardens. With that in mind, our collection though small in number, reflects four prime acquisition criteria: rarity, quality, aesthetics, and where possible, historical importance.

Dimensions:
Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 12 in (30.48 cm)
Style:
Showa (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Stone,Hand-Carved
Place of Origin:
Japan
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor fading.
Seller Location:
South Burlington, VT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU128924636723

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