Emigrating from the Netherlands, California Arts and Crafts metalworker Dirk Van Erp was known for his metal lamps. In 1910–11, Van Erp entered into a brief partnership with Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy Gaw, a designer who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and C. R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft. This lamp features a mica shade that crowns the hand-hammered baluster-shaped base of a rich reddish brown copper. The lamp was not produced before 1910 and it is likely to have been a collaboration between the two designers. After D'Arcy Gaw left, Van Erp's studio continued to produce the designs.

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