I was really worried about all the reviews about plastic, but the lamp is made of stained glass. The description is correct, "400 hand-cut pieces of bent glass in this Chloe light table lamp." The main colored glass is striated and is called art glass in the stained glass supply stores. it is beautiful when lit up, but it is also very pretty in front of a sunny window, when the sun hits it, the bottom 3 inches of the shade shimmer like a border. They mention variations in color among lamps, but mine, when lit, looks more aqua/green with a few pieces of turquoise. But when not lit looks turquoise. The border around the bottom of the shade is smoky lavender with pale lavender insets. The only thing that is a little crude is what looks like a bent wire decor piece at the top of the base near the pull chains. It's more like a bent piece of metal rod, and the ends are just chopped off, somewhat indelicate compared to the delicacy of the rest of the lamp. And mine didn't have the 7 watt candelabra bulb, so I'll have to disassemble it after purchasing one. But it is a lovely lamp, it glows beautifully..