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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.
Blenko Glass
Art Glass of the Atomic Age 1950-1960
William Blenko had success as a manufacturer of stained glass. While that business dried up with the arrival of the Depression, by 1932 his tableware was on display at Macy’s. Today, collectors look for Blenko’s signature pieces in exaggerated sizes, bold shapes, and brilliant colors.
Brief History of Blenko Glass Born in 1853, William J. Blenko began learning his trade at the age of 13 [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Waffle and Thumbprint Glass Pattern
This variation on the traditional Waffle pattern was produced from the 1850′s through the 1870′s by various glassworks, including the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., the New England Glass Co. and Curling, Robertson & Co. It alternates panels with thumbprints with waffled panels. It is known mostly in clear flint glass pieces, but some were also produced using the less desirable and cheaper lime formula process.
Vesica
Vesica is a term used to describe a particular design motif in cut glass, particularly early Bakewell, Page cut glass from Pittsburgh, comprising an oval, typically but not alwsys horizontally oriented with pointed ends. The vesica’s interior is usually filled by strawberry cross hatching. Vesica comes from a Latin root meaning bladder or sack.
Yaffa Sikorsky Quote
“I make pieces that I myself would like to live with. My background as a painter led me to relate to clay forms as three-dimensional canvases; when I began blowing glass, the dimension of motion and flow were added. I use lampworked imagery in my new work. Nature is my inspiration. I use nature as an impulse, blending my feelings and fantasies. I add and delete as I deem necessary to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sawtooth Pattern Glass
Sawtooth pattern glass was produced in the 1860′s by both the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and the New England Glass Co. This pattern typically covers the bottom three-quarters of the piece which usually has a sawtooth rim, knobbed stems and applied handles. Sawtooth was produced in both clear and colored glass.
Sabino Glass
Sabino art glass has been made in France since approximately 1920 until the present from the designs of Marius Ernest Sabino (1878 [...] Click here to continue reading.
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