If a lamp (or any object really) isn't a well known design that someone knows right off the bat (and in these cases you would probably find it yourself with a google image search) pics of the underside of the base, the plug and under the shade are needed.
Sometimes these "ugly bits" ( in the worlds of...Lief? spanky?) can help with an ID.
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