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A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital (2002). A paperweight is a small solid object heavy enough, when placed on top of papers, to keep them from blowing away in a breeze or from moving under the strokes of a painting brush (as with Chinese calligraphy).
Vase (1872) manufactured by the Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. (Victoria and Albert Museum) Millefiori (Italian: [ˌmilleˈfjoːri]) is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). [1]
In the 1830s Bacchus produced pressed glass by using a plunger to force molten glass into a cast-iron mold. In the 1850s, they began making cased glass, which has thin layers of different colors which can be cut away to produce cameo glass. [2] Bacchus also produced cut glass items, including Venetian-style paperweights [3] and tableware. [2]
A fiery red blended to yellow. [20] Amethyst A deep to pale purple. [20] Blue Pale to deep blue. [20] Cobalt Blue A deep shade of blue and the most sought after. [20] Independence Blue 1975-76 A cobalt blue carnival treatment made during the U.S.Bicentennial. [21] Green This color ranges from a deep green to a light yellow green. [20] Marigold
The early 20th century marks the move away from hand-blown to machine manufactured glass such as rolled plate glass, machine drawn cylinder sheet glass, flat drawn sheet glass, single and twin ground polished plate glass and float glass. Broad sheet glass was first made in the UK in [3] Chiddingfold, Surrey on the border with Sussex in 1226.
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 ...