Alabaster Beaded Pendant Light – 44 cm Brass Stem | Jagmag Lights

This alabaster beaded pendant light threads two 50 mm stone beads onto a slim brass stem and finishes with a 200 mm alabaster cylinder. A dark brass ball sits at the top of the stem as a counterweight to the stone below. The whole fixture measures 44 cm and hangs from a rigid rod, so it stays exactly where you set it.

Where it fits

At 120 mm wide this is a narrow, vertical light. It suits places where a wide shade would be in the way.

• Beside a bed: The obvious use. One each side at 75 to 85 cm above the mattress clears the nightstand completely and puts light where you read.
• Over a narrow console or hallway table: The 12 cm shade will not crowd a shallow surface.
• Flanking a bathroom mirror: Two hung either side give even light on the face, which a single overhead fitting never does.
• In a row over a breakfast counter: Three at 70 cm spacing reads as a rhythm rather than a cluster.

Why you will use it every day

Two beads and a cylinder. That is the whole design, and the restraint is what makes it work.

The proportions are deliberate — a 4 cm brass ball, a 10 cm brass stem, two 5 cm alabaster beads, then a 20 cm shade. Each element is roughly half the one below it, which is why this alabaster beaded pendant light reads as considered rather than assembled. Copy the same idea with equal-sized parts and it looks like a stack of nothing.

Hand-cut from natural alabaster — which means no two are alike. The veins run differently. The colour shifts. The edges darken where the stone is denser. Light it up and you get a glow that belongs to your piece and nothing else. One block of stone. One light. Never repeated.

The beads are solid stone and do not light up. Only the cylinder is hollow and lit, so you get a clear separation: two opaque markers, then a lantern. Unlit, the beads and the shade are the same cream tone and the fixture reads as one object.

It takes a standard E27 bulb, which most people will treat as a feature rather than a compromise. You choose the wattage, you choose whether it dims, and in five years you buy a ₹200 bulb instead of writing off the fitting. We suggest a warm-white 6 to 9 W E27 LED at 2700K to 3000K.

We make this alabaster beaded pendant light in our own Greater Noida factory and hold spare parts for 10 years and more, which on hand-cut stone is the difference between a repair and a replacement.

Light & finish

The cylinder is open at the bottom, so the light does two jobs. The stone walls glow and show their veining, and the open base drops a defined circle of light onto whatever sits below.

Bulb choice changes the character more than on most fixtures. A warm 2700K bulb pushes the stone amber and suits a bedroom. A neutral 3000K keeps it closer to cream and suits a hallway or a bathroom. Anything cooler than 4000K fights the natural warmth of alabaster and is worth avoiding.

The metalwork is antique brass — the top ball reads almost bronze, the stem and the collar under the beads are brighter. That contrast is intentional and it will settle further as the finish ages.

Unlit, this is a pale sculptural object against the wall. It works against warm plaster, lime wash, olive and clay paint, and it does not need a dark backdrop to register.