Nepalese Brass Butter Lamp
Product ID: A1105-187
$2,895.00
About this piece
A bowl on a tall stem and a base layered like a small pagoda.
This butter lamp is brass from Nepal, dated in the record to the late 19th or early 20th century. Butter lamps are commonly lit as offerings in Buddhist and Hindu settings across the Himalayas. A wide cup with a beaded rim sits on a slender stem with swelling knops and small curved brackets. Below, the base rises in tiers of beaded rings and incised patterns. The brass has darkened to a golden-brown, with deeper tones inside the bowl.
About seventeen inches tall. A centerpiece that doesn’t need to light up to glow.
