french.bubble.lamp 001

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Comment by Jonas Clark-Elliott on May 27, 2008 at 7:40pm

These were, it seems, made by one "F. Vaudan" of Paris. This has beads floating in the red oil to break up the rising bubbles, yes? Most but not all of these "lava boilers" had either beads to make smaller bubbles, or indents in the glass to bounce the bubbles around.

Comment by Modulo '70 on May 23, 2008 at 2:07pm

My lovely French bubble lamp. It really is a beauty.