El Franko...
But what a terribly dark picture on the museum site :( I knew there was a trend in museums to install lighting that makes it hard to see the objects - but wins curators prizes - but not the photos too please!
I requested permission from the Swiss National Museum to use their picture of the light aqua log-cabin and square bricks, and they emailed me back a picture that was quite different from the one on their web site. It's the same shot, but there's been a lot of color correction. Am waiting to hear back from them what's going on.
Here is a composite I made:
(http://glassian.org/GMB/COL-6953.jpg)
The left side with the neutral background looks right to me; it's what appears on their site. The one on the right is what they mailed me as the official version.
Hmmm.
Hi Pamela...
Pressed vs Press-blown? That seems so unnecessarily confusing. Pressed vs (just plain) blown makes so much more sense. Are they trying to distinguish between old-time hand-blown and machine-blown? geblasen itself means blown, so {mund|form|press}geblasen... more hmmm.... where is the "glas"? Does mundgeblasen etc simply imply glass?
--ian
I recently bought a Falconnier catalog in German (http://glassian.org/Falconnier/Catalog/DE/page1.html), dated 1900, and put it online. (I'm working on an English translation). It shows these blocks, or at least the full-size one (this is a half-brick) for use in curved walls, domes, etc:
(http://glassian.org/Falconnier/Catalog/nr7.gif)
(http://glassian.org/Falconnier/Catalog/nr7_example_outside.gif)
Looks like the location of the pastille is incorporated into the design, instead of being hidden as in the other patterns, ala bull's-eye panes of crown glass.
The catalog lists four basic styles, and fancy colors "yellow", green, blue and opal (milkglass). Green I have seen, and yellow usually means amber, presumably including this darker brown shade, and there's a milkglass one in the Swiss National museum, but blue! Cobalt maybe, or cornflower (which is just light cobalt). Oo la la, must find one!
--ian