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American Brilliant Cut Glass Overview From about 1875 to 1905 prospective brides looked forward to receiving as wedding gifts pieces of the fabulous cut glass then being created in American glasshouses. It was said that these crystal gifts should “look like a million and weigh a ton”. In the dim lighting of the period, tables at family dinners and parties laid with the faceted punch bowls, vases, trays and every manner of cut glass [...] Click here to continue reading. Decanters & Stoppers A great number of early early decanters were made with a heavy ‘donut’ shaped lip often referred to as a bar lip. These were designed to be used with cork plugs or what were referred to as ‘patent’ stoppers. These were much less expensive to manufacture than matching glass stoppers which required grinding by hand to the correct size. As an example of this practice consult the McKee Bros. (Pittsburg) price [...] Click here to continue reading. The A.H. Heisey Glass Company The A. H. Heisey Glass Co. was founded in Newark, Ohio following the Civil War and remained in operation until 1956. The company was known for its finely cut and etched glassware and for a number of popular and widely marketed lines of pattern glass in the 1920′s to 1950′s as well as a line of glass animal figures. Coralene Decoration of Ceramics & Glass Coralene describes a special decorating technique producing a raised or beaded texture used on fine glass and ceramic wares. It was popular during the Victorian era from 1850 to 1900, although it was also used in earlier periods by Japanese artisans and others and has been imitated in later eras. Coralene decoration was applied primarily to premium wares like satin glass or peach blow because it involved three [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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