 | Like Venus rising from the waves at Cythera full grown, so did English Cameo glass burst upon the Victorian scene in 1876. Yet, in a mere fifty years the style had peaked, exhausted its exotic, glamorous life span, and disappeared as had its ancient cameo glass progenitor 2000 years before… |
 | Emile Galle was and is the dominant figure in French cameo art glass and was perhaps the most outstanding person working in designer glass in the Art Nouveau period. He was student and teacher, worker and director, craftsman and artist… |
 | Daum has been an important name in glass production in France since the late 1800's. In 1875 Jean Daum, father of Auguste (1853–1909) and Antonin (1864–1930), acquired a glass factory in Nancy and gave it the name «Verrerie de Nancy»… |
 | Andre Delatte started art glass production in Nancy in the 1920's with detail achieved by the Roman cameo carver even though it does not equal the technical excellence achieved by George Woodall in the late 19th and early 20th century… |
 | The Muller brothers worked for Galle before they established their glassworks at Luneville. Custom glass production was later continued at Croismare, only a short distance from Luneville… |
 | Cameo glass bearing the name «deVez», «Mont Joye», and «Pantin» was produced by the same company. E. S. Monot at La Villette near Paris founded this company in 1850… |
 | August J. F. Legras started work in decorative glass in 1864 at Saint-Denis near Paris, and continued production until about 1914. He produced a variety of art-glass, much of which can be classified as cameo glass… |
 | Le Verre Francais cameo art glass was produced in Paris and has a rather distinct style. Usually of only two layers and with a single acid cutting, both the thinner outside and thicker inside layers are almost always mottled, streaked or clouded with glass of varying colors… |
 | Among the other more frequently encountered names in French cameo art glass available in the market today are D'Argental, Richard, and Arsall. All pieces encountered by the authors with these names are multilayered, acid–cut cameo with either floral or scenic glass designs… |
 | Baccarat and Saint Louis of France and Val Saint Lambert of Belgium are all large custom glass companies and each produced a variety of types of designer glass. All three produced cameo art glass, much of which was in a similar style with a thin layer of transparent colored glass on a clear glass base with acid cutting… |
