Aesthetic Pate Sur Pate Oil Lamp Drop In Font Aesops Fables Meiji Influence

Aesthetic influenced Celadon Green Oil Lamp with Drop In Font, pate sur pate decoration taken from Aesops Fables. The first scene on the front is from the story of the grasshopper and the ants, a story about wasting ones time when one should be being productive; and the other is the fable of the fox and the stork.

You can look them up. Aesop deserved his freedom from slavery.

Japanese Meiji Influence to the base. The brass housing that houses the drop in oil lamp bowl does show a dent, but the ceramic of the base and font is perfect.

The total height of the oil lamp with the drop in font in place is 12 in or just under 31 centimeters tall. The screw thread on the female of the drop in font is suitable to take a burner with a male thread of 1.5 inches. The total diameter of the body at the shoulder is five inches and 3/8 or 13.6 cm.

The diameter across the feet this 5 1/2 inches or 14 cm. The total weight of the lamp and font is just over 5 pounds in weight or 2.3 kilograms.

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