@odd No. I will have to look with different eyes to see how you might have guessed that.
@cliffordbeshers Is it glass, or metal?
@cliffordbeshers Now I see it: It’s a glass and metal plafond overhead lamp, probably in a corridor.
@odd I should add, same as with a glass bowl, that knowing you are looking at the underside might not be helpful.
@odd No, but stay in the general class of “glass, both useful and ornamental, but often not actually used.”
@cliffordbeshers @odd .... this is why I struggle. "glass, both useful and ornamental, but often not actually used" could describe far too many objects in my house...
@odd I'm assuming that holiday decorations for Festivus have expanded like holiday decorations for everything else...
@annahavron i did say it might be impossible. I will say this object is manufactured, not unique, but it is intended to be unusual and eye catching, so it won’t pattern match easily.
@odd @cliffordbeshers I'm betting if I really tackle that back closet like I keep saying I will, I'm going to find five inherited from my mother-in-law.
@annahavron i don’t know what mercury glass is. I suspect the manufacturer would call it crystal, but a glass specialist would not.
@odd I am certain its function and the name of such objects will be familiar to you.
@annahavron Inlooked up mercury glass, and no, nothing that wonderful. I suspect you are being fooled by the colors of the object this glass is resting on.
@cliffordbeshers what a relief! I was just going to say I'll have to leave this one to @odd, who came through again.
@cliffordbeshers I got to this too late, but I don't think I'd have gotten it. These are great fun — better in my opinion than Andrew Sullivan's View from Your Window.