Pairpoint Puffy Butterfly Table Lamp

Description:

Pairpoint Puffy Butterfly Table Lamp, New Bedford, Massachusetts, early 20th century, mold blown Papillion shade of frosted glass, the interior painted with four yellow, orange, blue and green butterflies with a rose border, gilt highlights, mounted on a baluster-form silvered metal base with engraved floral, berry and leaf designs, the shade signed "The Pairpoint Corporation" in gilt, base with impressed manufacturer's mark and model C3050, (2 in. professionally repaired rim crack, wear to patina on base),ht. 19 1/2, shade dia. 13 1/2 in.
Estimate $4,000-6,000

the crack was repaired with arsenic to seal it.

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