OPINION: LINDA GITTLEMAN: Lamp is a bit of Venice in St. Louis

It is, after all is said and done, just a lamp.

A genie won’t pop out, granting you three wishes if you should rub it.

It also didn’t sit in the boudoir of Marie Antoinette or Madame Pompadour.

But it’s a safe bet to say that few lamps with a design known as “Ca’Rezzonico” have been seen around here.

It now sits in the window of the Bustle and Grind antiques store on North Mill Street in St. Louis. Price is $2,200.

The two-tiered candelabra type table lamp came from the Seguso family glass works on the island of Murano in Venice.

Art Smith and his wife Carra Jones Smith, both now deceased, picked up the lamp in Italy in the 1970s.

It’s given that name because “it is based on a highly naturalistic design of a chandelier created by the renowned glassmaker Guiseppi Briati in the 1700s for the palace of a wealthy noble family of Venice with the name Rezzonico,” said Diana Hulme, who used to work at Sotheby’s and now, with her husband and family makes her home in Alma.

Hulme said the family palace still stands in Venice.