Topic: one of my favorite Italian glass lamps

[jonspencer]

this globe type lamp has fabulous quality that is immediately noticeable when you first pick it up and feel the surface

it is triple the thickness of similar globe lamps I have and it is possibly "cased" ?

it measures near 14 w x 12 h inches

 

[jonspencer]

does it look like this lamp is clear "cased" between the red swirls?

I believe that one reason why this globe lamp is so heavy, there is more than one layer of glass

[chopin-liszt]

It's opaque white glass, cased in clear and the red spiral added on top of that. The casing is not inbetween the red bits, it's under them.
Unless the white is created by adding powdered white enamel to a clear gather.
White is a bit of an awkward colour in glass - it tends to have a different melting point to other colours and can be "incompatible", creating problems. I think it is quite common to use coloured powder on a clear gather to give a base colour, rather than melt a whole pot of coloured glass.

[ardy]

God! you picked up some lovely lights, Well done - good taste too (as it matches mine!!!)

[jonspencer]

thanks for the explanation about how the lamp was cased

the red swirl creates a similar effect as the "caged glass" as the white area sort of bulges out around it