The perfect summer sky blue of this pitcher is beyond awesome. The entire base is lightly bubbled. It's color- go look at the pictures. If you see ones that look like they have a darker light than I usually do - you're right. I couldn't get the light brighter without losing the color, so you get both sets of picture. The handle is a highly bubbled hand applied glass.I had a hard time deciding to sell this separately. There are other pieces of this set listed separately in my chairish store. Followers of my chairish store get notifications of new listings and discounts.