Mosque lamp, 19th c. Indian?

Interested in finding out more about this, but I haven't found much that looks like it online, especially the brass chainsof animals and human figures. But I am not experienced at searching for antiques. Bought I believe in India in the '60s or '70s, but possibly made in the 19th century?

 

this one is less involved...

http://ancientpoint.com/inf/87188-a...ue__arabic_muslim_islamic_middle_eastern.html





where as this one above , looks like yours..


https://auctionet.com/sv/1263614-taklykta-massing-orientalisk-1900-tal

I'm , not seeing 1800's.....
it looks like it was new when it was bought....

but I wasn't there when it was made !!!!!!!!!

 

Ditto.Alex,Yours looks more like this one (but yrs might be newer)-
https://www.etsy.com/listing/562811...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

 

With the deity (photo below) it is more likely an Indian Hindu temple lamp based on a Persian mosque lamp, with some caryatids thrown in for good measure.

 

Doesn't Islam have prohibitions against portraying the human figure?

 

Not all schools of Islam do. However, portraying humans in a mosque would be highly unusual, even in the more liberal schools. And Hindu deities would be a no no in a mosque.

 

I'm going out on a limb to say that hanging chain with elephant and deity does not belong to the lamp. Two very different things. Look at the construction of the lamp and then the construction of the hanger.

 

Classical Mosque/Madrasa Lamp-

Large glass lamps of this type were commissioned by sultans and members of their court for mosques, madrasas (Qur'anic schools), tombs, hospices, and other public buildings in fourteenth-century Mamluk Cairo. This example bears the name of its patron, Qawsun (d. 1342), amir of the Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalaun (r. 1293–1341 with brief interruptions), and was probably intended for one of his two architectural commissions in Cairo—a mosque or a tomb-hospice complex.
*Crusaders may have seen these in the Holy Land & they may have been present in Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain 711-1492).

 

A stunning museum piece, but not really your usual mosque lamp.
I have a Persian brass mosque lamp that is of the type of OP's temple lamp, only Islamic, sturdier, better quality, no caryatids, and older.

 

AJ-Love to see yr mosque lamp.We love the older Moroccan/Islamic lamps-brass usually.Most of the Ebay listings,when they say old-seem to be really describing 40's-60's,though I'd imagine they get some older pieces occasionally ?

 

I'll see if I already have a photo of it.

 

Found a photo, not the best quality, but you get an idea.
The openwork around the top and bottom has birds in foliage, a symbol of paradise.
The cockerel-topped screws which secure the 'pillars' are alternated with crescent moon-topped screws.

 

That's a beauty !