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Cristalleries de Saint-Louis bowl 1908
flying free:
Cagney I posted a long list of links on this thread here just for cross referencing. I researched that lampshade on that thread in minute detail for quite a while. I think that's when I realised the Saint-Louis half moons seemed to be peculiar to them. Love your yellow pieces. They're a stunning colour.
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,55375.msg313877.html#msg313877
cagney:
Those links remind me a lot of the process I went through trying to get a line on my tumblers. That Clichy did some version in the 1870s seems quite viable. Glassworks where very keen on what other companies were doing and what was selling. A very competitive business to be in at the time, especially given the the importation of glass from other countries.
Interestingly, Frederick Carder also developed a different process while at Stevens & Williams c.1890s Where the background on a cameo object would be "pecked" using a steel stylus powered by a sewing machine mechanism. Only a few pieces made due to breakage.
flying free:
I like the sound of that Carder pecked background. As though it might looked chipped. I must look that up and thank you :)
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Ekimp:
There is a very good description of the plate etching acid etch process from a Cambridge Glass Company brochure here: http://cambridgeglass.org/articles/etchingarticle.php
Cambridge Glass pattern E725 looks like it has a similar half moon device, used to fill the pattern, in pattern E725. http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,71939.0.html
(Not saying it’s related to the bowl except in the use of plate etching to create a similar design element)
flying free:
Apologies for the tardy response to this Ekimp. That information is fascinating. So they were using an incredibly detailed and time consuming process to create these pieces.
I remember on another earlier thread from years ago speculating on how these acid etched pieces might have been made. I presume the French method was done in a very similar way to that which you've posted from Cambridge.
(Just spent the weekend in Paris with many hours in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, closely peering at their fabulous collection of glass :) )
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