This item is a Vintage 1990s Southwestern Cerámica Aljesa Terracotta Lantern Tea Light Holder, hand-painted in Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, Mexico. • The Manufacturer: Produced by Cerámica Aljesa. The bottom bears the official company stamp: “ALJESA - HECHO EN MEXICO”, along with their historical regional telephone routing prefix numbers (91-828).
• The Style & Design: Styled with a 1990s pastel desert theme. The inner sleeve is hand-painted with a matte desert landscape featuring a central saguaro cactus and distant mountains highlighted with elegant bright gold-leaf outlines.
• The Mechanics: This is a three-piece modular set. It features a main outer frame structured like a rustic miner's lantern with an open side-window architecture and a silver-toned metal spring-coil wire carry handle. It features a removable interior cylindrical central sleeve that shields a standard wax tea light candle from the wind, topped off with a small vented lid containing four heat-escape holes.
• Dimensions: Measures exactly 7.25" Tall x 4" Base Diameter when fully nested and assembled with the lid in place.