The backplate is executed in a lively, naïve style that is typical for eastern Europe. It consists of an openwork panel mounted on a solid backing, which is also characteristic of that region, as distinct from Austria and Germany, where the artists preferred to allow one to see through the openwork. Particularly amusing are the legs, which are in the shape of chicken feet.
The baroque character of the imagery, with its paired lions and flowering vines, suggests the piece might date to the eighteenth century, but such vinework continued later in eastern Europe, for example, in Torah shields dated to the first half of the nineteenth century. A very similar lamp with marks helps establish the place and date of origin, since it bears the pre-1851 Polish assay mark "12."