I've seen that vase with the lizards eating the rim somewhere - the real thing. Just been trying to wrack my brain to remember where.
Have you read the end of Farbenglas I from page 253 onwards? That's the English translation of the German text throughout the book. It's all concentrated together as no need for photographs as they're already in the German part of the book. The photographs are also captioned in German and then English underneath as I'm sure you've seen. But the text in English is a translation of the rest of the book all concentrated together between pages 253 and 280. It gives incredible detail of the coloured glass shown at the various exhibitions especially Vienna in the 1830s and then onwards. Really fascinating info and it's all in English. It's an absolutely fascinating book because that glass was bought or given to the Technisches Museum Wien at the time it was made and then catalogued into the collection. So the dates and info from those archives are illuminating and definitive.
RE the stalk on the green melon box, the thing is, if it were at the end it wouldn't function as a handle to lift the lid. Artistic licence and all that. And that box is an example of a piece of glass I would never have believed was dated to c.1840. It's unbelievably forward thinking and modernist. I love that piece.
I know what you mean about them looking as though they are a granular effect and they could be, but I think it's supposed to represent rough glass, like Eisglas.
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