Engraved Glass Hundi Lantern With Single Fitting Size:12 Inch Diameter 5 x H36 cm

5 x H36 cm

now softly worn and layered with age

it would work beautifully as a console or side table

with pair of cupboard doors carved with auspicious motifs

or bindi powder

Engraved Glass Hundi Lantern With Single Fitting Size:12 Inch Diameter 5 x H36 cmHarkening back to the simpler times of the 19th century, our glass handi pendant lantern radiate light through your home. These glass lamps are known in India as Handis or Hundis originally named after a cooking pot. Originally made in Europe and exported to India as lighting for large homes and palaces in the 19th century candles or oil lamps would have been placed inside with a glass lid to prevent soot from marking the ceiling. Many survived on the