20th October till 20th January and the Peacock lamp is now finished! My photos don’t bring out the full depth of colour, but there you go.
There were a number of difficulties to overcome, the first was the lack of availability of a brass upper ring or its support ring.
As I had already thought about strengthening the lower edge of the Wisteria lamp that is already underway I had purchased several meters of tin coated copper braid from Tressage du Dorlay, 3mm inner diameter, 6mm outer diameter. This was considerably cheaper than the brass ring (2.37€/meter as opposed to 49€) and formed easily around the finished opening after demolding. After soldering in place and coating the surface with solder, this gave a clean round form to the lampshade upper opening.
The 76mm support ring was replaced by a 140mm tin coated ring which I soldered in place on the lamp inner surface at 6 different locations. This too was considerably cheaper ( 7€ instead of 114€).
Marqueterie et Tiffany 