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Subject:what are the images on this lamp? demons? ghost? cormorants?
Posted By: nk Tue, May 09, 2017 IP: 173.66.99.15
hello
i got a supposedly antique lamp in an estate sale.
the shade and finial are new. there is a figure of a man and two smaller images. my best guess is that it is of a fisherman and two cormorants. however, the smaller images dont look like birds, more like ghosts or demons.

so, what do people think?







Subject:Re: what are the images on this lamp? demons? ghost? cormorants?
Posted By: Stan Wed, May 10, 2017
They are bats; an auspicious symbol to the Chinese people. The word for 'bat' and 'good fortune' are homonyms in Chinese.

Cheers,
Stan

Subject:Re: what are the images on this lamp? demons? ghost? cormorants?
Posted By: geo. Wed, May 10, 2017
Bats, symbol of good fortune.

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