Nepalese Oil Lamp with Dragon Motif

The bowl needs lifting, and two dragons appear to have volunteered.

From the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal comes this oil lamp with a dragon motif, a contemporary work in brass. Standing lamps like this one serve temples and home altars in the Himalayas, where keeping a flame before a sacred image counts as an act of devotion in Buddhist and Hindu life alike. The metal here has a pale, silvery cast. A broad lobed bowl with beaded rims sits over a lotus collar, carried on the bent bodies of scaled dragons. A pierced band circles the domed foot. Twenty-one inches high and eleven across.

Nobody has yet told them they can put it down.