The lamp is crafted from ormolu in the distinctive Rococo style, its decorative mode drawing from the work of Clodion, or Claude Michel, a French sculptor of the late 18^th and very early 19^th Century known for his practice of bas-relief friezes.

The lamp features a vase-form body that features an encompassing bas-relief frieze portraying a procession of putti, all engaged in Bacchic revelry. The body of the lamp is raised on a fluted socle, above a circular foot—ringed with twin laurel wreaths—and a square base. The shoulders of the lamp are mounted with twin handles, each rectilinear in form and terminating in a large grotesque fawn’s head mask. From the top of the vase-form body springs a waisted neck, from which sprouts an abundance of foliate forms. Atop this rests the lighting apparatus, which includes a large cream shade.

With shade: Height 65cm, diameter 55cm
Without shade: Height 49cm, width 25cm, depth 17cm