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Description: | Ruby red glass, or Cranberry glass as is was called in Britain, is made by adding gold chloride to molten glass. The origin of the process has not been established for sure: there are evidences that the Romans made red glass as early as the 4th century AD; the recipe was, it seems, lost in the Middle Ages, and re-discovered in Italy and in Bohemia in the 17th century. The process was always painstaking and difficult, requiring precise mixing of glass ingredients, including gold, and many craftsmen (sometimes as many as 26) to produce one piece. They are typically hand-blown or molded. This fuels the price of cranberry glass: it always was very expensive. The most famous period of cranberry glass production was in 19th Century Britain during the Victorian Era. It became most popular in manufacturing flower vases, sweetmeat bowls, wine glasses, decanters, and fingerbowls. A pair with g24.
Wine glass which is made from clear glass coloured red, the bucket bowl is etched with a fruiting vine. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Decorative arts Gorgeous Glass Glass Victorian period | Temporal: | 1850 - 1900
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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