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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by flying free on February 01, 2025, 10:46:58 PM »
 

  The crown if actually plated/cased  with yellow glass a small ' Tour de Force'. I wonder if the yellow may be a silver stain [ not silver color, silver in the stain batch to get the yellow].

Well now ... funny you should say that.  My absolute first thought on coming across it by accident was 'made by Neuwelt, stained either at Neuwelt or by Egermann'.
I investigated what I'd recalled in the book:
See page 109 of From Neuwelt to the Whole World, plate 115 -  for a 'Flacon in the form of a crown' which indeed is very, very similar and has a Maltese cross for a stopper.
The 'turban' cutting around the foot is something Harrach used, seen on many items in the book,  and iirc it's specifically mentioned in the book.  I'll try and find the quote.
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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by cagney on February 01, 2025, 01:15:08 PM »
  The complete showcase of uranium glass at Passau very illustrative of the depth and diversity of color to be had. I see how the terms canary, topaz, etc. can be subjective, interpretive and even interchangeable. As you sort of intimated at the beginning of this thread, one persons canary can very well be another persons topaz, I did come across some of Pellats recipes for colored glass collected by M. Drake  sometime between 1851-1874. Of note is the last entry from the table of contents.

  The crown if actually plated/cased  with yellow glass a small ' Tour de Force'. I wonder if the yellow may be a silver stain [ not silver color, silver in the stain batch to get the yellow].
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Glass / Vase with applied canes. Odd one.
« Last post by kwqd on January 31, 2025, 11:50:47 PM »
This vase is about 9" high x 5" wide x 4" deep, and signed illegibly on the bottom, just under 5 lbs. The signature looks a bit like "Art Genatti/Cenatti/Cerratti, etc.". I cannot make it out. It has an applied, ground base with a ground pontil. Lots of bubbles in the glass. It is an odd mixture of simple and complex techniques. I do not think I have ever seen canes applied to a vase in this manner before. Not sure what to make of it. No idea of who/where/when. Big hunk of glass, though and inexpensive. Does anyone recognize this signature?
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Glass / Re: Frosted decanter.
« Last post by flying free on January 31, 2025, 12:52:25 AM »
I've just read a recent essay in the Heidelberg University Publishing that I don't want to link to in case of copyright.
From reading that, it seems the acid etching technique on glass actually goes back many centuries and was known about and used. 
There is an example of a really beautiful piece of acid etched glass from the 1600s in one of the German museums shown in the essay.

The author does mention Pellatt and appears to me to say that Pellatt didn't really mention acid etching.  That comment/part is curiously worded so I think I've understood what it meant correctly. Anyway, that seems to be similar to your comments about Charles Hajdamach's mention.
I'm surmising here but I suppose that could be because hand engraving was seen as real craft as opposed to acid etching, which I suppose could be seen as less craft/person technical if you see what I mean? Or it could be that acid etching had gone out of vogue.  It definitely was referenced as being known about, and used on glass, many centuries ago.

With regard to Pellatt, I think these things are always difficult to put real meaning to because for example I read in Bohemia they didn't focus on pressed glass because it would have taken away work from their glassmakers.  i.e. there was an economic reason why they continued with handmade glass in the 1800s not that they couldn't produce pressed glass (and I think there were a few makers who did). Pellatt may not have wanted to discuss it because they were hand cutting and hand engraving  at Falcon and why promote something you didn't use, or perhaps didn't feel had the same quality as hand engraved work?
 Or it could be that the technique of acid etching wasn't widely in use here/at that time frame even elsewhere, therefore Pellatt didn't cover it.
I've not checked your Hajdamach reference so apologies, and neither have I looked in the Pellatt book to see if anything was said at all on the subject.


The author of the essay does mention the 'launch' (my words) of acid etching in the UK in the mid 1800s as being when it took off.
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Glass / Re: Topaz or Canary or Victoria
« Last post by flying free on January 31, 2025, 12:15:11 AM »
Very interesting piece of glass here:
https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/bentley-priory-collection/queen-adelaide-perfume-bottle/

The Bentley Priory museum says it was produced by Apsley Pellatt c. 1830 probably as King William came to the throne, for Queen Adelaide.
Interesting because it is, in their words 'yellow', cased glass. 
It appears to me to be clear glass with a yellowish overlay (topaz?) cut to clear.  i.e. cased glass. I think 1830 would be quite early for cased glass?
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Scandinavian Glass / Re: Orrefors with unusual inscription
« Last post by kisslikeether on January 30, 2025, 08:06:04 PM »
Orrefors has always offered engraving for awards etc but it equally could have been engraved by a third party. Impossible to say for sure.
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Scandinavian Glass / Randsfjord Glass Vase with Dancer ?
« Last post by Lee M on January 30, 2025, 12:49:27 PM »
Hi

Amongst the numerous glass items I own is this clear glass vase with a rather stylised dancer. I suspect that it is Randsfjord, but there are no markings or stickers upon it to confirm this - I'd be happy to hear you opinion of it.

It stands 10 inches (27cms) high.



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Scandinavian Glass / Orrefors with unusual inscription
« Last post by Lee M on January 30, 2025, 12:41:34 PM »
Hi

I recently picked up a few items in an auction joblot, one of which is a fairly mundane Orrefors vase. It stands about 6.5 inches tall (16cms) and has the following inscribed OF - MHF 1964 II:a pris.......... which strikes me as being a little unusual. Was it a 2nd place prize ?, if so was it awarded within Orrefors (Hence the OF-MHF inscription). If that is indeed the case - why is it in French ?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter - sorry for the poor quality 2nd photo






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Glass / Re: Jacobite significance or not
« Last post by markhig62 on January 28, 2025, 06:28:32 PM »
Hi again - here are the photos as requested.

Cheers
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Glass / Re: Jacobite significance or not
« Last post by Lustrousstone on January 28, 2025, 08:56:00 AM »
Pretty. Can we have a proper shot of the foot and of the base please. Also dimensions too
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