I imagine it does look good when the lamp is on.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't dare comment on such pieces since I know less than nothing about glass decorated in what appears to be an Italian style, but since Anne has included a question mark re the description, and since I have a glass dictionary, thought I'd throw caution to the wind.
Harold Newman devotes some space to the differences in appearance of lattimo, latticino/latticinio, filigrana, reticello and retorti - and his dictionary is worth the few shillings it might cost - don't imagine its date of 1977 is in any way a problem.
The base word from which some of these descriptions are derived is the Italian 'latte', for milk - and have to say, though it seems obvious when you think about it, I didn't know that entirely white milk glass also apparently qualifies as lattimo - I use the word white, since contrarily milk glass also comes in colours - though collectors don't seem to go that route, and people prefer to say simply milk glass when the piece is fully opaque. The French prefer 'blanc de lait' for milk glass.
Anyway, I'd suggest that the correct description for Anne's glass is lattimo, based on the broadish marvered bands or festoons of opaque white glass - as distinguished from glass decorated with embedded threads of opaque white glass - i.e. filigrana, and latticino which is as its name suggests has a lace-like or lattice-work appearance.
Such decoration is mostly associated with the Gulf of Venice and the well known names we see here often.
However, regret Anne I've not a clue as to the origin or age of your lamp base, or even as to whether it may or may not be Italian in origin - sorry to be so negative as to provenance.
Has China offered such decoration in recent decades does anyone know.
Ref. 'An Illustrated Dictionary Of Glass' - Harold Newman - Thames and Hudson - 1977.
Topic: Table lamp with latticino(?) technique pattern. (Read 810 times)
