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Back in the 1860s carousel figurines spread to the United States. Dustav Dentzel started a company that made the parts. Art Nouveau is known for his cameo glass. He used the acid-cutting method to create his pieces. [1] Ancient glassworkers would make vessels, vases, and eating utensils.
Cameo glass vase by Daum Nancy. The Daum family worked at the beginning of the Art Nouveau era and created one of France's most prominent glassworks. Established at the end of the 19th century, Daum's renown was originally linked to the École de Nancy [3] and the art of pâte-de-cristal, a major contributing factor to its worldwide reputation.
The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which is dated between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. [1] It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.
Steuben Glass is an American art glass manufacturer, founded in the summer of 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York, which is in Steuben County, from which the company name was derived.
Frank Jr. died in 1998. In 2002 the molded glass operation was spun off as The Glass Group Inc., which filed for bankruptcy in the summer of 2005. Its assets were purchased by India-based Gujarat Glass and Kimble Glass, a subsidiary of Gerresheimer, a German concern. The company owned the assets of Stangl Pottery from 1972 to 1978.
In 1860, Baccarat registered its trademark on all its products (at the time this was a simple label stuck onto each piece). The mark was a label affixed to the bottom of the work. In the period 1846–1849 Baccarat signed some of their high quality glass millefiori paperweights with the letter B and the year date in a composite cane.
A small eight-point star in the center of a bigger eight-point star. The lines making up the star have a dotted or stippled texture. [24] Vintage This pattern consists of a wreath of grapes and leaves around a flower in the center. The base is the shape of a dome. Unlike the Fenton Vintage design, this pattern is closer to the center and has ...
Blenko Glass survived, and even prospered, in part because of a new product: a figurine of West Virginia's mythical Flatwoods monster. The product was 16.5 inches tall, and was colored clover green and ruby red. Production was limited to about 800 pieces, and the figurine was popular among millennials—a new market segment. The product was ...