New Bedford, MA, was major producer of art glass, and Pairpoint was famous for its glass lamps. The company was founded by Deming Jarves in 1837 in South Boston, MA, as the Mount Washington Glass Works. The Mount Washington Glass Works exhibited at the U.S. Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and from 1876 through 1881, produced an extensive line of lighting goods and other glassware, including glass chimneys, fine blown cut glass, and pressed glassware. In 1880, British silver designer Thomas Pairpoint resigned his position as head designer at the Meriden Brittania Company and founded the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company, which was established in New Bedford as a silver manufacturer supplying Mount Washington with silver-plated metal mounts for its glass lamps and other products. In 1894, the two companies merged, and in 1900, they were renamed the Pairpoint Corporation. This electric lamp features a green and gold peacock feather design on the mushroom-shaped glass form. The dark mahogany wooden base includes the switch. This lamp is one of a pair that was made for Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DeMello by master glassblower Robert Gundersen. Mr. Demello was night watchman at the Pairpoint plant. In 1939, the company was reorganized with Robert Gundersen as the new owner and was renamed Gundersen Glass Works.