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Robert William Willson (Mertzon, Texas, May 28, 1912 – San Antonio, June 1, 2000) was an American artist and sculptor notable for his creative use of solid glass. He was one of the first Americans to work with solid glass in partnership with the glass blowers of Murano, Italy.
$1130.30 at 1stdibs.com. Tiffany Studios. In the U.S., Tiffany Studios, founded in the U.S. by the son of the founder of Tiffany & Company, Louis Comfort Tiffany, produced a type of glass called ...
The glass used was crystal and seven colors of glass: amber, blue, green, pink, amethyst, brown, and ruby. Among Jamestown stemware, ruby is valued higher than other colors by collectors. [80] Among the milk glass patterns, Vintage was used for tableware and a few types of stemware from 1958 to 1965. [81]
Flint glass melted in tank: In 1898 Charles H. Runyon of the Keystone Glass Company in Rochester, Pennsylvania, was the first in the United States to melt the batch for flint glass in a tank. [21] Note 11 ] A second source calls the Rochester company operating at that time (1897–1905) by the name of Keystone Tumbler Company.
The glass made by Lancaster Glass Company can also be considered elegant glass, as it went through several finishing processes before being sold. [3] In 1924, the company was acquired by Anchor Hocking, who continued to produce glass under the Lancaster Glass Company name until 1937. After 1937, the Lancaster plant was known as Plant #2, which ...
Blenko Glass Company is an art glass company that began producing in 1922 under the name Eureka Art Glass Company. The company name was changed to Blenko Glass Company in 1930. Originally an antique flat glass company, it was founded by Englishman William J. Blenko (1854-1933). Blenko came to the United States to make glass in 1893.
This list of glassware [1] includes drinking vessels (drinkware), tableware used to set a table for eating a meal and generally glass items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry. It does not include laboratory glassware .
Robert & William Wilson were American silversmiths in Philadelphia, active in partnership from roughly 1825–1846, then continuing as a mark until 1877. It was succeeded by William Wilson & Son. Robert and William Wilson were brothers. Robert, the elder, started making silver at 25 Dey Street, New York City, in 1803. By 1812 he apparently ...