Chinese, Japanese, Asian Antiques, by June Hastings
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1930 item #789957 (stock #JHopDoorLam)
June Hastings
Sale Pending
Dating around the 1920s is this 8-sided pierced metal opium lamp. Each of the eight panels has glass inserts to protect the flame. A pair of doors opens in the front to light the flame and in some cases to heat the opium tar housed in a damper bowl at the end of an opium pipe. This lamp is in original condition with a removable brass burner. All the cut-outs are intact. I have not identified the metal, but there is a faint coating of rust on the lamp...