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Durand Art Glass Durand Art Glass was produced for seven brief years (1924 to 1931) in Vineland, New Jersey, by Victor Durand Jr, a French immigrant who owned and operated the successful Vineland Flint Glass Works which produced various lines of commercial wares. The Flint works had been founded with Durand’s father in 1897. A man with foresight and ingenuity, Durand Jr. was the first to produce a thermos bottle in this country along [...] Click here to continue reading. Burmese Pattern Glass The Mt. Washington Glass works of Boston, Massachusetts, obtained a patent on Burmese Art Glass in 1885. The new glass form had been created for them by the Englishman Frederick Shirley and is characterized by a gradual shading of bright yellow at the base of the object to a pink at the top. This unique blend of colors was created by adding gold and uranium to the glass, which is thin [...] Click here to continue reading. The Handel Company Handel & Co. was formed in 1892 when Philip Handel bought out the partner with whom he had formed Eyden & Glass Decorators seven years earlier. The company became Handel Company, Inc. in 1904. The new company began manufacturing leaded glass shades for oil and gas lamps, as well as the new ‘electroliers’, in the late 1890′s and continued doing so until they closed their doors in 1936. One of Handel’s [...] Click here to continue reading. Peloton Glass Peloton Glass was first created in Bohemia circa 1880. Its technique involves rolling the glass ware directly from the furnace in colored glass threads. Webb Glass Works Established circa 1835, Thomas Webb & Sons was one of England’s foremost art glass makers during the period from 1885 to 1935. From their glassworks in Stourbridge they were leaders in the European Art Nouveau Movement, contributing new glass forms such as Alexandrite, Cameo and other designs to the genre. In addition they borrowed the American forms of Peachblow and and Burmese designs for some of their most successful work. Open Lace Depression Glassware The “Open Lace” pattern was manufactured by the Hocking Glass Co. of Lancaster, Ohio from 1936 to 1938. It features a scalloped rim and center design of radial-lined sunbursts and is almost always found in pink. One variation of the pattern has a pierced or open border design. Pate de Verre Glass “Pate de verre”, a French term for “paste of glass”, a form made from very early historical times by heating powdered glass or similar substances and hardened. Once formed in this manner, the object is carved, painted or has other decoration applied. Cameo Pattern Depression Glass One of the “star” patterns in Depression Glass, Cameo was manufactured by the Hocking Glass Co. of Lancaster, Ohio between 1930 and 1934. Sometimes called “Ballerina” or “Dancing Girl”, Cameo is the only Depression Glass pattern to include a human figure in its decoration as little dancing girls with long scarves appear in the plate borders surrounded by festoons and ribbon rows. The Portland Glass Co. The Portland Glass Co. (Portland, Maine) manufactured glass in several pressed patterns including ‘Tree of Life’ and ‘Loop & Dart’ from 1864 to 1874. Val Saint Lambert Glass “Val Saint Lambert was founded in Seraing, near Liege, Belgium, in 1825, the same year the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company was founded. Originally it occupied the grounds of an old Cisterian Abbey. There were twelve workers. Its first catalogue, issued in 1829, included pressed ware, which incidentally had been introduced by Jarves at Sandwich two years earlier. In 1835 Val St. Lambert exhibited candelabras and a “Vase Medicis” of [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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