This is a totally beautiful lamp. Unfortunately mine looked like the package had been drop kicked, the internal Styrofoam packaging was flimsy and obliterated, down to beads everywhere, and the electrical portion had been knocked lose from the glass base, which was miraculously intact. Since it had clearly just been glued on, and I have adhesives of a wide variety on hand, I resolved to fix rather than return it, since that box wasnt going to survive a second trip anyway, and I do like the lamp. The lamp is cheap but petty, but the packaging was totally insufficient.