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Decorative glass paperweights have a flat or slightly concave base, usually polished but sometimes frosted, cut in one of several variations (e.g. star-cut bases have a multi-pointed star, while a diamond cut base has grooves cut in a criss-cross pattern), although a footed weight has a flange in the base.
In Scotland, the pioneering work of Paul Ysart from the 1930s onward preceded a new generation of artists such as William Manson, Peter McDougall, Peter Holmes and John Deacons. A further impetus to reviving interest in paperweights was the publication of Evangiline Bergstrom's book, Old Glass Paperweights, the first of a new genre.
Monart and Vasart glass objects, such as paperweights, vases and dishes, are characterised by vibrant marbled colours combined with subtle hues and inclusions of mica flecks and bubbles. Their decorative and distinctive style has made such objects popular with collectors, many examples of which can be seen at the Perth Museum.
Art glass is a subset of glass art, this latter covering the whole range of art made from glass. Art glass normally refers only to pieces made since the mid-19th century, and typically to those purely made as sculpture or decorative art , with no main utilitarian function, such as serving as a drinking vessel, though of course stained glass ...
"Thrift stores consistently have loads of glassware in stock but zero in on the art glass—the pieces that are mostly ornamental but can also be used as vases or paperweights or add visual ...
Nicholas J. Lutz (21 February 1835 St. Louis-lès-Bitche, France - 31 March 1906 Somerville, Massachusetts) was a French glassmaker who received his training at the Cristalleries de St. Louis, and later emigrated to the United States where he settled in White Mills in Pennsylvania, later working at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company.
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