Indian Hanging Oil Lamp

Darker lamp dish holds a chain wound around a tall urn-shaped column.

This brass hanging oil lamp from India is from India, and dates to the mid 19th or early 20th century. Oil lamps have long been used in Indian homes and temples, and they are lit daily in many households as part of worship. Shallow dark dish on a short flared foot, with a vase-shaped central column topped by a ring and a small point. A fine chain loops around the column and runs out across the floor to a plain ring. It is 44 inches high and 6 in diameter.

Handsome, dark and wrapped in its own chain.