Porcelain Oil Lamp
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Lighthouse Ball Oil Lamp, black
$99.50
Color:Black Outdoor torches create a warm atmosphere in your garden all-year-round. This floor torch is designed by Christian Bjrn, who designed Menus award-winning Lighthouse series. The ball torch is Bjrns modern reinterpretation of a traditional, American-road torch: An elegant, modern design torch with a significant Scandinavian expression, just like Lighthouse. The weather-resistant torches a…
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Pacifique Porcelain Fragrance Diffuser, Coral Design
$59.99
This is a beautiful scented oil diffuser in the Coral design. Fragrance: Pacifique (Ocean theme). You can also use this diffuser with your choice of scented oil. Also available in Starfish & Shell Design….
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Aura Cacia Ceramic Aromatherapy Lamp Ring 1ea
$4.95
Aura Cacia’s ceramic lamp ring gives you a wonderful way to enjoy the benefits of aromatherapy. Designed to fit most standard light bulbs, lamp rings are convenient and easy to use. Add Aura Cacia 100% pure essential oils to your lamp ring to enhance your mood and freshen the air in your home or office….
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Red Porcelain Catalytic Lamp with White Flower Design & Gold Crown Cap
$45.99
This gorgeous Red Porcelain Catalytic Lamp with White Flower Design & Gold Crown Cap has the finest details and highest quality you will find anywhere! Red Porcelain Catalytic Lamp with White Flower Design & Gold Crown Cap is truly remarkable.Red Porcelain Catalytic Lamp with White Flower Design & Gold Crown Cap Details:Condition: Brand NewItem SKU: SS-GC-CB-202RDDimensions: H: 5.5 x L: 4.35 x W: …
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Miniature Victorian Lamps (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
$30.36
Miniature oil lamps are beautiful reminders of Victorian days, glistening in glass, china, porcelain, brass, and silver. Most were made in the mid-to late 1800s, though the fashion lingered somewhat into the early years of this century. The variety is staggering; lovely glass lamps can be found in a wide range of textures and colors, while china lamps often appear as figurals, or with hand-painted…
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Lighthouse Oil Lamp 350, White
$99.50
Size:18, Color:White The Lighthouse oil lamps are equipped with a newly developed oil burner that really lights up the night. This oil lamp doesn’t burn with just a little flame, it burns like a fantastic bonfire!’ exclaims the designer Christian Bjrn. Furthermore, the Lighthouse oil lamps have a unique filling system that makes it possible to fill the oil from above, so there’s no need to take th…
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Lighthouse Ball Oil Lamp, White
$99.00
Color:White Outdoor torches create a warm atmosphere in your garden all-year-round. This floor torch is designed by Christian Bjrn, who designed Menus award-winning Lighthouse series. The ball torch is Bjrns modern reinterpretation of a traditional, American-road torch: An elegant, modern design torch with a significant Scandinavian expression, just like Lighthouse. The weather-resistant torches a…
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Table Lamps – Japanese Tokkuri or Saké Bottle Lamps
Saké is a traditional Japanese liquor made from rice and water. It is produced from a fermentation and filtration process. Known in the west as “Saké” but in Japan as “Nihonshu”, Saké is a general term for alcohol.
The fermented Saké is initially a milky colour but is filtered by pressing through a mesh to produce a clear liquid. The Japanese production of Saké is an ancient tradition with evidence as far back as the 3rd century B.C. As with so many Japanese traditional practices, Saké has its own specialised ceramics. The central shape being the Tokkuri or
Saké bottle
These containers were developed into a ceramic art form and many were produced by small family potteries. The majority were produced as earthenware specifically known to the Japanese as “stone textured”. Very often the brewer ordered the Tokkuri from the potter, who then wrote the name of the brewer in Japanese characters or in flowing script as shown by our examples.
As today, when the customer returned the empty Tokkuri to the brewer, he received a rebate on the refill! The Tokkuri were constantly recycled and used for oil, lamp oil, vinegar and for a wide range of domestic uses. In keeping with this tradition, The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co have recycled the Tokkuri now seen on their site as table lamps, robust and full of character.
Saké is normally consumed cold in the summer and warm in the winter. Warming is today achieved by standing the now small porcelain Tokkuri in a container of hot water. In earlier times the stone textured Tokkuri were also warmed in hot water but were commonly suspended over a low coal fire to heat the Saké. The Japanese block print illustrated, circa 1820, shows this traditional method.
In the vast Japanese literary tradition, the Haiku or 16 syllable poem is found “in praise of the Tokkuri.
Two Tokkuri
The misty world
Seems to float
Anon
and this haiku by Issa’s – 1824
Living alone
Just one Tokkuri
For drinking away the years
This haiku refers to an end of year drinking party, but in this house, (Issa’s), every day is new years eve!
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co currently have 3 tokkuri table lamps. Two are stone textured in the traditional “Rosuku” shape and one rather elegant smaller version of monochrome glazed earthenware. These “robust and honest” lamps have a timeless ability to fit very comfortably into both the traditional and contemporary interior, being at home in either setting
The traditional wheel potted Tokkuri virtually disappeared after 1945 along with many typical Japanese domestic art and craft form
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A 19th century Japanese stoneware sake bottle or “Tokkuri” as a table lamp.
The bold black characters, the name of the brewer
The table lamp on a turned & polished maple wood stand. Early Meiji – Circa 1880 Overall height (including shade) 21″/53cm
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view.
Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.
You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com
© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009
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April 30th, 2010 
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