The designer of this lamp was Ze'ev Raban, one of the major artists of the early Bezalel School from 1912 until 1929, when it closed. Raban was amazingly prolific and versatile, and he continued designing carpets, metalwork, book illustrations and posters, public relations material, even furniture and architectural ornamentation. Despite the wave of modernism that swept Israel, Raban maintained his more tradition-based style and iconography throughout his career.
In the 1940s and 1950s Raban continued to design for two manufacturers of decorative arts in Israel: Pal-Bell and Tzel-Tzion. A prototype of the rendering of the tree and horned animals can be seen in the clasp of a bookbinding designed by Raban and Meir Gur-Arie in their Industrial Arts Studio, founded in 1923, as well as other works by Raban.