Italian Bronze and Tin Hanging Decorative Lantern, Circa 1820

Italian bronze hexagon glass hanging hall lantern with decorative scrolled arms, filigree upper border, four interior light cluster, and terminati...

English brass hexagon hanging hall lantern with a decorative centered ring over Prince of Wales plumes, bulbous chased pierced dome with a filigree border, single hinged locking door...

Funky lantern made of handcrafted solid brass, bronze top with decorative palm leaf motif, weathered patina, electrified with three 40/watt lights, good for wet locations and would l...

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...