Ordered lamp along with a tagine and lamp socket. The lamp is designed to complement existing oriental ceramic lamps what she's doing great. It is executed in light / red clay, open on one side, the other with a closed bottom and may be suspended in both directions alternatively. Installation / mounting hardware is completely absent, I will operate electrically and have ordered a corr. Lamp socket with. When wall mounting perhaps a little imagination is required. The lamp like it very much. Now to the packaging: Lamp and tagines were separately wrapped in bubble wrap and cardboard in a rather large box that was filled with very much small foam elements to break safety. The foam now fills 2 yellow waste bags! The lamp socket I found after some searching somewhere in the foam, ditto. A bag of tea as a gift (thank you!). So much packaging did not have to be!