Parankan (Straits Chinese) Gilt Lacquer Offering Box Table Lamp - 19th Century
A ‘Straits’ or ‘Perankan’ Chinese hand carved, gilded and lacquered wood offering box (‘Chanab’), converted into a table lamp. This lamp has a carved and pierced top half in the form of a temple, above six buddhist lions which can be spun around, on a hexagonal box base with lacquered panels depicting a scholar with attendants on one side and a river scene with a figure and birds on a raft on the other.
We believe this offering box to date to the late 19th / early 20th century, before being converted to a lamp in the mid 20th century.
These offering boxes were used by the Straits Chinese (Babas/Nonyas) of the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca & Singapore and also the Peranakan Chinese of Indonesia. This example was probably made for the export market.
This lamp has been freshly rewired with a brown fabric flex and a brown MK bakelite plug.
Condition:
Some flaking to edges of the panels on the base. Drilled all the way through for the brass column.
Dimensions:
34.5 cm high (47 cm total including fitment) x 29 cm wide x 11 cm deep
Free UK delivery. International buyers please email me with your postcode for a shipping quote george.holtby@gmail.com
A ‘Straits’ or ‘Perankan’ Chinese hand carved, gilded and lacquered wood offering box (‘Chanab’), converted into a table lamp. This lamp has a carved and pierced top half in the form of a temple, above six buddhist lions which can be spun around, on a hexagonal box base with lacquered panels depicting a scholar with attendants on one side and a river scene with a figure and birds on a raft on the other.
We believe this offering box to date to the late 19th / early 20th century, before being converted to a lamp in the mid 20th century.
These offering boxes were used by the Straits Chinese (Babas/Nonyas) of the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca & Singapore and also the Peranakan Chinese of Indonesia. This example was probably made for the export market.
This lamp has been freshly rewired with a brown fabric flex and a brown MK bakelite plug.
Condition:
Some flaking to edges of the panels on the base. Drilled all the way through for the brass column.
Dimensions:
34.5 cm high (47 cm total including fitment) x 29 cm wide x 11 cm deep
Free UK delivery. International buyers please email me with your postcode for a shipping quote george.holtby@gmail.com
A ‘Straits’ or ‘Perankan’ Chinese hand carved, gilded and lacquered wood offering box (‘Chanab’), converted into a table lamp. This lamp has a carved and pierced top half in the form of a temple, above six buddhist lions which can be spun around, on a hexagonal box base with lacquered panels depicting a scholar with attendants on one side and a river scene with a figure and birds on a raft on the other.
We believe this offering box to date to the late 19th / early 20th century, before being converted to a lamp in the mid 20th century.
These offering boxes were used by the Straits Chinese (Babas/Nonyas) of the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca & Singapore and also the Peranakan Chinese of Indonesia. This example was probably made for the export market.
This lamp has been freshly rewired with a brown fabric flex and a brown MK bakelite plug.
Condition:
Some flaking to edges of the panels on the base. Drilled all the way through for the brass column.
Dimensions:
34.5 cm high (47 cm total including fitment) x 29 cm wide x 11 cm deep
Free UK delivery. International buyers please email me with your postcode for a shipping quote george.holtby@gmail.com