17th Century Lanterns

Beautiful and rare early 17th Century Florentine hexagonal lantern. In original paint with a repeated series of caryatids to the hand carved frame, retaining its original glass. Rece...

Composed of a central rope stem on which rests a lantern clad with a pointed rope hat wound at the top and decorated at the bottom with vertically placed curved rope stems, forming a...

Highly polished boat lantern with thick bulbous glass lens. This has been meticulously polished and lacquered. Mounted to a thick wood base with dark rich finish. Wired with a vinta...

Beautiful lantern with cut sides decorated with sunflowers and acanthus leaves in relief.

Pair of inlaid walnut Lombard lanterns; dated back to 17th century, the decoration shows some Renaissance echoes. The lower band, with squared base, shows tiles painted as fake burl;...

Likely once a pole lantern this lantern is of painted tole with a number of openings for candlelight, now suspended from a chain, retaining what appears t...

17th century Italian electrified and painted Venetian carved wood lantern.

In Spain, little is known of these types of objects because of the lack of examples preserved. It is clear that light elements, especially those that were not too large, tended to be made in silver or, in any case, masking other materials in which they were made, for example by gilding the bronze. The lanterns, normally, are going to tend to the vulgarization to use mainly in exteriors of palaces. Although this work shows the gilded metal, it is clear by the abundance of decorative elements, that it is not a vulgar work, although it does follow the common decorative trend for these elements of decorated base plates of various figuration. It is possible, therefore, to be used to illuminate some entrance hall of a residence of great importance, as is believed to be the case of the polychrome and gilded wood lantern preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London of origin, supposedly, Venetian and dated towards the end of the 16th century (inventory 7225-1860), or in a religious area of great importance. This decorative technique will be very successful, as evidenced by 18th century lanterns (for example, those of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Soledad of El Carmen de Écija made in silver by Damián De Castro). Other examples are the one in the Palace of the Marquess of Santa Cruz of El Viso del Marqués (Ciudad Real, Spain), that is a fanal of Turkish galley gained to Mahomet Bey in the Battle of...

The crest of the Hideyoshi family is depicted in each panel of this intricately cast bronze lantern. It comes from Eiheiji are in Japan where the Hideyoshi family of samurai and poli...

Beautifully carved urn with three handles and gilded in silver hanging from chains and issuing three three-arm sconces, 17th-18th century, internally wired, UL Wired.