The lamp is cheap looking, you can see the seams in the ceramic on either side of it. It's not bronze, kind of a gray/black. The lamp shade is crooked (made like that) and wobbly, it just sits on the fixture, nothing tightens down on top or around it. The linen materiel the shade is made from is crooked also (the 'lines' in the linen run diagonal instead of side to side) so even if I get the shade balanced correctly, it still looks crooked.