Shabbat lamp. India (Cochin?), [early 20th century; added wiring from ca. mid-20th century].
Cast brass; sheet copper; electric wires.
A circular Shabbat lamp, with seven spaces for hanging small oil cups. The lamp is suspended with three rods, with loops at their ends that connect to hooks at the base. This lamp was professionally wired and its oil cups replaced by six bulb holders covered by sheet copper cylinders, surmounting special fixtures attached to the lamp with screws and nails. The electric wires extend through the lamp's central ring to the three hollow rods, and from there to a bell-shaped copper fixture at the end of the lamp.
Length: 70 cm, maximum width: 35 cm. Good condition.
See: Orpa Slapak (editor), "The Jews of India - Bene-Israel, Cochin Jews, Baghdadi Jews", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1995, pp. 84-85.