The lamp was consigned by a descendant of Egypt’s first Prime Minister, Nubar Pasha, having been in the family for more than ...

And for the bases of these lamps, he sandwiches enough of the stuff ... Fill the jars with colored glass, and a transparent tube to allow light all the way to the top, and they’re done.

A 14th century lamp from an Egyptian mosque, one of the rarest, most beautiful of its kind has sold for £5million, a world ...