Regardless of whether you came across ginger jar lamps in one of the books by Dean Koontz, or you have seen them in Chinese movies, or in a museum somewhere, you have fallen in love with these Chinese ginger jar lamps. Step back and you see these jar lamps turning into a passion. It is like owning a precious vase except that this lamp can create light, a lot of light, up to 150 Watts worth of light.

A lot of furniture shops have a beautiful pair of blue and white ginger jar lamps. In the early 20th century jars depict the Shou Symbol, meaning longevity. These ginger jar lamps jars have the exact same pattern but differ as to one having it’s lid and the other not. The lamps stand on black painted wooden bases. The lamps measure 21″ and 20″ tall with the harps. The ginger jars measure 9″ and 8″ tall and both measure 8″ at their widest points. Both jars are in very good condition showing no damage. The blue on white is spectacular. The wiring is up to date and ready for use.

While most traditional lamps are the white ginger jar lamps, this should be understood in a general way. It is not that they are simply white, but rather they will be in a diversity of white to off-white colour backgrounds, and the engravings or the images painted on them will likely be single colour, usually blue or black. So the white will simply take over, hence the designation. Apart from the colour, the paintings on the jar can be quite busy and difficult, ranging from multiple columns of Chinese script, to several landscape paintings just on a single side. And they could be alternating on the four sides of the lamp.

The ceramic ginger jar lamps are charming table lamps design that features an ivory finished base made of ceramic stacked circle and disc shapes. As for the lighting, the ginger jar lamps lighting will normally come with up to 150 W of allowable power, so you will be able to have enough light from the lamp no matter what conditions. A lot of lamps will allow for placing special multi-stage bulbs, which will allow you to set the light to anywhere from 10 W to full 150 W power.

The advantage of the ginger jar lamps compared to all the other lamps that are available on the market is the fact that you will be able to models of those lamps practically in every store in the world. IF you make a simple search in some of the main search engines you will find a lot of online stores that are offering these lamps.

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