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Pablo Picasso, 1913–14, Head (Tête), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Pablo Picasso, 1913–14, Student with a Newspaper , plaster, oil, Conté crayon, and sand on canvas, 73 x 59.7 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Westmoreland Glass Company was founded in 1889 when a group of men purchased the Specialty Glass Company located in East Liverpool, Ohio, and moved it to Grapeville, Pennsylvania. [1] Grapeville was chosen as the location of the factory because the property had a large source of natural gas. George West served as president of the company ...
Bowl of a wine glass in typical cut glass style Cut glass chandelier in Edinburgh. Cut glass or cut-glass is a technique and a style of decorating glass. For some time the style has often been produced by other techniques such as the use of moulding, but the original technique of cutting glass on an abrasive wheel is still used in luxury products.
File information Description Pablo Picasso, 1914-15, Nature morte au compotier (Still Life with Compote and Glass), oil on canvas, 63.5 x 78.7 cm (25 x 31 in), Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.
Designs were cut into the inside walls of all mold parts. Some molds impressed a pattern on the object and base, while others omitted the base. Most molds were in three parts, but could also be constructed of two or four parts. Regardless of the number of parts of a mold, all objects produced in a mold are called three-mold glass. [11]
Duncan & Miller Glass Company was a well-known glass manufacturing company in Washington, Pennsylvania. Items that were produced by the company are known as "Duncan glass" or "Duncan Miller glass." The company was founded in 1865 by George Duncan with his two sons and son-in-law in the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A pattern made by using opalescent glass that was a copy the Polka Dot Victorian pattern. [13] Dragon and Lotus This pattern is possibly available in more colors than other patterns. [14] Hobnail An even arrangement of bumps similar to that found on the bottom parts of hobnail boots. [15] Open Edge Also referred to as Basket weave.
[Note 11] Another long-lived glass pattern, Century, was introduced in 1949 and made until 1982. It was used for stemware and tableware. [77] Advertising during the 1940s included photos in the Ladies Home Journal. [78] Production peaked in 1950 when Fostoria's 1,000 employees manufactured over 8 million pieces of glass and crystal.