Topic: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?

[SNJ]

Could anyone please suggest, well anything, to throw some light on this 11" piece? The default for anything chunky like this is Murano but that's such a generic term and besides, perhaps looks a bit plain. In fact, having looked at it again, the chrome bit on top has no hole and nor is there a drill hole for flex exiting anywhere so is it even a lamp or a base for something else? The glass, incidentally, is clear with an icy blue tinge, no casing.

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220210.jpg

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220212.jpg

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220214.jpg

[Pinkspoons]

Its bulbholder would have had its own hole for wiring, or would have been attached with a spacer tube with a side-entry hole.

I wouldn't be too shocked if there were a Val St. Lambert signature/mark somewhere to the base.

[SNJ]

Ah yes, that makes perfect sense and, having Googled some examples, I would say that that attribution looks very reasonable, so many thanks for that!

No sign of a mark anywhere, unfortunately, so presumably the original label would have been removed.

[Ivo]

VSL is the most likely, but Vannes and Sèvres dit similars which are almost identical & often unsigned.

[SNJ]

But it was probably worth splashing out a whole £1 then?!

[Ivo]

hey big spender you!