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Tiffany Lamps

Tiffany Lamps with Stained Leaded Glass Shades

Tiffany Studios Charles Tiffany had a thriving luxury goods business which he expected his son to take over, but Louis aspired to a career in art. Although he trained as a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany was inspired by the glasswork in the Byzantine churches he visited as a youth. He was particularly taken with colored glass, and the effects of daylight upon it. Having studied with a [...] Click here to continue reading.

Tiffany, Louis Comfort & Favrile Glass & More

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany, born in New York City on February 18, 1848, was one of America’s foremost leaders of the Art Nouveau Movement. Tiffany opened his glassworks in 1885 on Long Island, New York producing a wide range of outstanding designs for lamps, windows and decorative objects. As a leading developer of new forms of art glass, L. C. Tiffany is most noted for his Favrile glass produced from 1892 into [...] Click here to continue reading.

Rene Lalique Art Glass Perfume Bottles

In the late 19th and 20th centuries, perfume was sold in simple containers which were meant to be emptied into more luxurious perfume bottles displayed on the dressing table, but thanks to Lalique’s collaboration with Coty, perfumeries began selling their scents in elegant glass bottles.

Rene Lalique Brief Biography Rene Lalique (1860-1945) was a master jeweler, but it is not his jewelry for which he is [...] Click here to continue reading.

Daum Freres Art Nouveau Glass

The Art Nouveau style was one of the first international styles, and French glassmakers Jean-Louis Auguste and Jean-Antonin Daum embraced the forms, vocabulary and technology for their sinuous and sumptuous art glass creations. Art Glass Lamps by the Brothers Daum, especially pieces manufactured at the family factory from about 1900 to 1910 find favor with lovers of the sensual lines of the Art Nouveau style.

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Carnival Glass

Once considered “Poor Man’s Tiffany”, carnival glass has its own enthusiastic following, and the glass, especially in red and blue remains popular. By 1905, glass manufacturers were cranking out inexpensive versions of the iridescent glass that had been made wildly popular by Tiffany Studios, but the name carnival glass wasn’t used until 45 or so years later. The popular glass made in the U.S. Australia, Europe, and Argentina, was sold cheaply, and [...] Click here to continue reading.

Galle, Emile – French Glassmaker

Emile Galle (1846-1904)

Frenchman Emile Galle was one of the Continent’s most innovative leaders of the Art Nouveau Movement. His glass studio, established in 1874 at Nancy, revived the ancient form of art cameo engraving in multiple layers of glass. Galle is also noted for signing virtually all of his work, inspiring other, previously anonymous glass artisans to sign their work as well. The Galle studio closed in 1936. His influence continued through the [...] Click here to continue reading.

Gemel Pottery Jug or Bottle

Gemels

The pottery form known as a gemel, also gemel jug or gemel bottle, is one of the rarest forms in American stoneware. The word is derived from the Latin word “geminus,” meaning twin, double, paired, or half-and-half. The plural of this same word, “gemini,” is used to refer to the constellation composed of twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, of Greek mythology. The words “twin” or “double” definitely come to mind when one thinks [...] Click here to continue reading.

Murano Glass

Murano Italy Glass Collectibles 1940-1960

Colorful Examples of Italian Glassblowers Art

Venetian glass makers and their Murano studios and factories achieved worldwide fame for the quality of their artistic glass creations. Italian glass has been famous for quality and innovation since the 14th century, and Murano continues that long standing tradition. Collectors have rediscovered the beauty of color and form of post-WWII pieces from the 1940s-1960s.

Murano Glass from Venice, Italy The small [...] Click here to continue reading.

Fire-King

Known for practical and affordable glassware, Fire-King produced a wide range of products in the 1940′s that collectors love-and still use.

Inexpensive & Attractive Designed to be inexpensive and attractive, Fire-King glassware was the result of a merger of the Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation and the Hocking Glass Company. Formed in 1937, Anchor Hocking introduced its popular line of Fire-King glassware in the early 1940′s. Fire-King products were designed to be [...] Click here to continue reading.

Fylfot Decorative Motifs

Fylfots are early design forms of the swastika. The design is frequently encountered in Pennsylvania Dutch decoration in a form that many say resembles a pinwheel. Never a widely used word, etymologists attribute the meaning to Middle English on the basis of one usage in a text from 1500. There, fylfot is used for the design because it was allegedly frequently used to “fill” the “foot” of a stained glass window [...] Click here to continue reading.

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