Candle Stick-Form Lamp, with Paw Feet

Tall, slim and gilded from the paw feet up, with a shade that flares like a bell.

This candlestick-form lamp with paw feet dates to the 20th century and is made of painted and gilded metal. Paw feet go back to ancient furniture and were revived again and again in European decorative arts, usually to lend a little grandeur. A square plinth decorated with scrolls rests on four small paws. Above it, a crosshatched column and a ring of leaves give way to a long plain stem. The bell-shaped cream shade has softly clipped corners and a gilt pineapple finial. It is 31.5 inches high and 5.5 inches square at the base.

Formal, without being stiff about it.