Ginger Jar Lamps - Epitome Of Classy Oriental Table Lamp

If you are finding into spicing up or remodeling your living quarters or if you are just naturally wanting to give an oriental table lamp for an unforgettable wedding anniversary gift, ginger jar lamps could make a exquisite choice.

Table Lamp

What are ginger jar lamps? You have probably seen them in many places, such as Chinese restaurants, movies about China, mentioned in popular books and in other places. These oriental table lamps highlight a ceramic or porcelain jar with a wooden or metal foot for balance. As a difference to the bent-out or convex shape of the jar body, the lamp shades for table lamps are bent-in, or concave, with openings on top, and resembling the roofs of the Chinese pagodas.

You can not mistake the silhouette of a ginger jar lamp for whatever else.

They come in two main materials: Ceramic table lamps and porcelain table lamps.

But what kind of a ginger lamp would suit your home best? That mostly depends on what kind of remodeling you have in mind. Let's look at two opposite possibilities: First, a contemporary style ginger table lamp, and second, a former oriental table lamp.

Modern ginger jar lamp

If one was to report a contemporary ginger jar lamp in one word, it would be simplification. A strong, single color close with or without a painting or print substituted a involved series of images or Chinese calligraphy. The strong curvatures of both the jar body and the lamp shade have straightened a bit, even to the point of ending up in a cone or a pyramid shape with a cut-off top.

The colors of the jar have become more varied, though, and in contemporary jar lamps they will include orange, turquoise, and assuredly off-white.

The materials for these decorative jar lamps are either porcelain or ceramics, and the contemporary lamp shades are made of durable rayon.

Antique style ginger jar table lamp

Antique style ginger lamps are characterized by much sharper shapes, both of the jar body, as well as the lamp shade on top. Their curvatures are strongly pronounced. And even more so, in antique jar lamps, you will find some that have a cross section of a square instead of a circle or oval. So uncut sharper curves are a hallmark of antique Asian lamps.

Color-wise, blues and greens dominate: both in English-style and Dutch-style lamps, blue patterns on off-white backgrounds are the order of the day with oriental ginger jar paintings.

Ginger jars are traditionally made of porcelain and porcelain, both today and historically. The lamp shades are made of silk.

Ginger Jar Lamps - Epitome Of Classy Oriental Table Lamp
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