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incandescent direct-light lamp

incandescent direct-light lamp, bird’s-eye lamp

An incandescent lamp, usually with a PS-or A-shaped bulb which is silvered from the maximum diameter to the base, leaving a clear or frosted hemispherical region opposite the base end.
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