Pair of Table Lamps with Sculptural Raw Glass Rock-Form Bases

$4,200

A pair of table lamps built around large, hand-worked glass forms cast to resemble natural crystal or mineral specimens, each in a soft olive to citrine green with dense internal bubbling, fissures, and cloudy striation running through the piece. This is the kind of deliberate inclusion work that gives specimen glass its lifelike, geological quality, and it catches the light beautifully when illuminated from within.

Each glass form sits atop a rectangular painted wood base with a short cut-out that holds the glass in place, the wood showing some retouching consistent with age and past ownership, and each is fitted with a slender brass stem rising through the glass. Both lamps have a three-way switch, allowing the light to be dimmed or brightened. The shades are not original to the lamps. This is a striking, sculptural pair of lamps, likely custom or small-batch studio work rather than factory production, circa 1950s.