clay: heath lamp

I recently went to Heath with a ceramics class for a factory tour and photographed tableware I want to re-create with my own hands. But last year on another Heath factory tour, I took pictures of the lamps. Their lighting is gorgeous.  

And really that's what I want to make first, my first ever hand built ceramic table lamp. I took closer pictures of the details. Okay first up, it's a lamp socket without a harp because the top cylinder is the lamp shade with holes punched at its bottom to allow light to illuminate surfaces below it and completely open at the top like any regular lampshade. Note, however, this is not task lighting, but rather ambient lighting.

   

When Leslie Aftosa Ceramics closed, I bought a couple of make-a-lamp kits that came with harps for a separate lamp shade, and that's not how I can make my wee ceramic table lamps. I'll use those kits that have a harp later because I also bought a large Capiz shell lampshade at another store. I need just the socket and cord and the threaded rod, but no washer with harp for my first lamp. To be continued.

All I'm seeing online at one particular site that sells light sets with no harp are hanging light sockets.

And the hanging pendant lamp is another build for another day.