wasn't casing done with the cupping method? Need to go and look that up again.
If rolling in frit was an easier method I think they might have thought of that for example in Bohemian cased glass in the 1830s onwards though?
I can't think cased glass was made like that. This kind of multi layered cased glass made as blanks to be cut through I mean.
Casing glass in this multilayered way isn't that easy as far as I understand. Blanks shatter, the layers of glass need to anneal at a similar rate etc. I didn't think it was something you could 'just decide to do' .
Therefore I associate Harrach then Baccarat, Saint Louis, Josephinenhutte and Clichy with this kind of multilayered glass (from 2nd third 19th century onwards).
Then I think of English cameo glass 1870s to end of 1800s.
And then Carl Schappel early 1900s and Ajka more recently.
Or perhaps the makers I associate with it are just because it was fashionable at those times, nothing to do with difficulty of process. Could be.
There are some examples in Charles Hajdamach British Glass 1800-1914 (pages 86 and 87) e.g. of a multi layered decanter from Bacchus c. 1850s (White over red over clear)
Then from Pages 203 onwards there is a large chapter on cameo glass (on cursory glass at examples seems to be white cased over colour)
From reading, it does not appear to have been an easy process.
It's just not something I think was made 'at the drop of a hat'. It seems it was quite difficult to do.
Andy McConnell has identified this decanter as from Osler:
https://scottishantiques.com/F-C-Osler-glass-BirminghamInterestingly Neuwelt were supplying Osler with glass vases and cased glass from the 1860s:
Source: From Neuwelt to the Whole World, Edited by Jan Mergl - see page 163 and note 251 on page 162
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Contacts with the F. & C. Osler Company were not limited to the production of table chandeliers - or even of glass bowls for gas lamps, and ... company. F. & C. Osler's luxurious company gallery and shop, which opened in 1860 on Oxford Street in London, featured other interior design accessories produced in Neuwelt, including decorative glass. (see note 251) The ability of the glassworks to produce coloured overlay glass of the highest quality, and the exceptional skill of its craftmen in cutting this glass, was used by the two companies to their mutual advantage, resulting at the end ...'Note 251 says '
Owen Jones ... . The painting rendered in intricate detail, clearly depicts, alongside other objects, table chandeliers and vases which can be attributed with some certainty to the production from Neuwelt'.I've been reading about this recently because I've seen a few pieces identified as Osler that I just could not believe could be from them. Hence finding this information in the Neuwelt book (I do read the book in fits and starts but use it as a reference book, rather than reading it from start to finish which I now think would be a good idea for me to do!)
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