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Description: | This bowl is made from cased glass; casing is a technique used to fuse differently coloured layers of glass together. When glass cools from its liquid state, stress will set in as the outer surfaces cool more quickly than the inner, meaning the final slightly shrunken piece could crack or shatter, something which can happen years after it is made. Cased glass is particularly at risk. Glassmakers work around this by carefully controlling the rate at which glass cools, and keeping it at a certain temperature for an extended period of time, before allowing it to harden. This small bowl was probably designed in-house for glass and ceramics brand LSA and made in Poland from 1995. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Geffrye Museum | Rights holder: | Geffrye Museum | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1995 | Source: | Geffrye Museum | Creator: | LSA International | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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