Table Lamp Depicting Falcon

A falcon with a hooked brass beak stands on one gripping foot, holding up the lamp without complaint.

This table lamp depicting a falcon is contemporary, in bronze and linen. Birds of prey have long served as emblems of nobility and the hunt, and the falcon in particular turns up on European crests and in sporting decor. The bird is cast in dark bronze, its feathers textured in fine scales, with a polished golden beak and a long tail swept down behind. Its talons clutch a round ball on a square plinth. A slim rod rises behind to a scalloped shade of natural oatmeal linen. It is 14.4 inches long, 14.5 deep and 30 high.

Falconers spend years training a bird to sit this still.