 | Cameo art glass signed D. Christian Meisenthal, Vallerysthal, and Burgun and Schverer is infrequently found in the market today, yet custom glass with these names o relief. Cameo pieces made by Christian Meisenthal and by Burgun and Schverer were produced at Meisenthal… |
 | Two brothers, Charles and Ernest Schneider founded the Schneider glassworks in 1903 at Epinay-sur-Seine. Ernest was manager and administrator. Charles was art director and supervisor of the art glass department. The Schneider plant moved to Lorris, France, in 1962 and is still in operation there… |
 | The Kosta glassworks in Sweden began cameo art glass production in 1897 with Gunnar Gunnarsson Wennerberg as designer. In 1901 Wennerberg left Kosta and the company ceased cameo art glass production. A. E. Bowman had assisted Wennerberg at Kosta… |
 | As artistic director of Georges Rouard's furnishings gallery in Paris for more than 40 years, Marcel Goupy saw both Art Nouveau and Art Deco come and go. A talented designer, he produced striking designs for ceramics and silverware during… |
 | Maurice Marinot entered the custom glass trade in 1911. His first work was with enamelware and later in designer glass with deep geometric engraving… |
 | The greatest technical innovation of the century was pressed art glass, invented in the United States in the 1820s… |
 | Acid etching or «embossing» as it is sometimes called in the trade, involves principally the use of hydrofluoric acid, one of the few acids which will rapidly corrode glass… |
 | Crackleware Art Glass is not particular style and it isn't by any means limited to one designer or another. It isn't from any one time period and isn't limited to any certain era… |
 | Other technique of crackle art glass is the 16th–century Venetian technique of ice glass (called overshot glass in the United States). The hot glass was plunged into cold water to craze it. When reheated, it retained a finish like cracked ice. In London, Apsley Pellan marketed it as Anglo–Venetian glass… |
 | Brilliant cutting, the process of wheel engraving sheets of plate custom glass, was first introduced to this country during the 1850s by Mark Bowden of Bristol. There was nothing inherently new about the technique; the process of engraving hollow–ware glass and mirrors was an old established craft… |
