Vintage 3 Tier Hanging Brass Oil Lamp From South India, Length 130 cm x Diameter 9.5 cm

From our Vintage collection - This Vintage traditional 130 cm long hanging Lamp is crafted with 3 Lingam Vilakku brass lamps held together with a link chains and has been used for decades to worship the Gods, claimed to be one from the several ancestral lamps of a family from Kerala in the Kannur region. 

This lingam Vilakku is handcrafted using the process of metal casting as per century old traditions by skilled artisans and hangs with 3 villaku lamps each measuring 9.5 cm in diameter.

Always an integral part of the prayer room, temples and domestic shrines, the presence of these lamps has been an important aspect of ritual worship offered to a deity and as per tradition are lit each day using ghee and wicks at dusk before any other lamp in the house. 

Measures:  
Length of the lamp with chain is 130 cm. Each of the 3 lamps measure 9.5 cm in diameter.

Weight: 1.3 kilograms



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