Posted 6 years ago
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This curiosity provoking thing finally followed me home from the Goodwill this weekend too, after I left it sitting there the last time I visited that store a couple weeks ago, being then unwilling to pay their asking price. [but yesterday, its price code marking made it officially "half-price", which brought it into my "OK, I'll take it" range... <lol>] Can anybody out in CW land tell me anything about it??
Seems there's little doubt it was made as a lamp base which is now missing its original cord/socket/shade, though its center pipe (which would have held all the above missing parts) is still (loosely, there were probably also a few more fancy-ish 'ferrule/pipe/etc parts' around its upper part under the socket too?) attached to it. Its 'marble part' stands about 16" tall, and there is a paper label on its felt(ish) covered bottom which reads "Handmade in the Philippines" with some kind of logo which is somewhat obscured by the residual goo of another now-gone sticker. I don't have any reason to think it is anything particularly "old", and wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn it first came from Pier One (or etc) post 2000's -- but I honestly don't have the slightest idea about that.
What catches my curiosity the most is how it looks to have been crafted. From looking into the holes in its base (after removing the loose center pipe) its entire outer surface seems to be actually a thin (1/8" or so?) "veneer" layer of relatively tiny pieces of black/brown marble (-ish stone of some sort?) closely joined together with brass accent decorations inlaid -- all this somehow applied over an inner 'core' of something which, near as I can tell by peering into those little holes, is more like common concrete. Whoever originally made it (whether a true "artisan" or a "sweatshop slave", hopefully closer to the former?) definitely had some SKILLS (that I don't have) any way abouts it, to fit all those little bits of rock together so smoothly...???
What I *do* know is that it shouldn't be a big problem for me to eventually dig around and find enough other assorted "lamp parts" to reattach to this thing -- whether exactly like it was or not -- to then be able to "light it up" once more...?? <LOL>
If anybody would happen to recognize anything about it, PLEASE speak up -- I'd love to know more about it, but don't really know how to go about 'researching' it...?
Thanks very much to:
fortapache
TassieDevil
Newfld
jscott0363
Brunswick
buckethead
&
officialfuel
for stopping by and tapping the <love it> button for this thing!
nice score..
From what I can see, the lyre is made up of segmented parts, so it resembles a lot of furniture possibly made in philipines or china early part of 21st century. I would imagine it is marble veneer and plaster of some sort, though I have never taken apart the much furniture of tables made of these marble parts.