Antique Glass for the knowledgeable glass collector.

Including georgian glass and glass by Rene Lalique, Emile Galle, Daum, Whitefriars and other master glass makers. As well as vaseline glass and carnival glass.

Buying Antique Glass gives the professional or amateur glass collector access to some of the most beautiful items artists and designers have ever produced.

Glass has been around for centuries and has basically remained unchanged with only the production methods becoming more efficient and glass quality becoming better and better.

However, modern glass just doesn't have the wonderful handmade feel of antique glass, especially the beautiful tactile Georgian Glass of the eigtheenth century.

Any type of antique glass, though, is a beautiful thing to collect and the diversity and range of glass items is absolutely staggering and almost impossible to fully comprehend. So choose wisely if you intend to start a glass collection and ensure you choose a type and style of glass that you are really passionate about.

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Rare Lalique Art Deco Oranges Vase

Art Deco Glass

Art Deco Glass is very beautiful and highly collectible and major designers of Art Deco glass were Rene Lalique, Maurice Marinot, Daum Freres, Marius Sabino, Etling, Schneider, Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, and Francois Decorchemont. In Sweden Art Deco glass was made by Orrefors.

Art Nouveau Iridescent Glass Vase

Art Nouveau Glass

Art Nouveau glass was made by many great artists, including Emile Galle, Louis Comfort Tiffany, the Daum brothers at Daum Nancy, Muller Freres, Loetz, and the Powells at Whitefriars. Think of a sensuous line, of a flowing line. Think of plant forms growing and burgeoning. Think of flowers in bud, the over-blown blossom. Think of waves of women's hair, think of twisting smoke. Art Nouveau Glass is curvaceous and sensual and one of the most sought after and collectible styles of glass.

Georgian Glass Spiral Stem Vase with Trumpet Bowl

Rare Georgian Glass

During the Georgian period the English became famous for the excellence of their lead glass and collecting Georgian glass is very popular and can be very lucrative. Sought after Georgian Glass items include wine glasses with spiral twist stems, ale glasses, rummers, good Georgian decanters and jelly glasses. Their are a variety of marks and attributes associated with genuine period Georgian glass items and any collector should educate themselves in exactly what to look for before buying a Georgian glass item. These attributes include colour, striations, style, dimensions and pontil scars.

Whitefriars Blue Banjo Shape Vase

Collecting Whitefriars Glass

Whitefriars Glass has become very popular and pieces by artists like Geoffrey Baxter are highly sought after. Whitefriars designs are unusual and include the popular Bricklayers, Cello, Bark and Banjo designs. Geoffrey Baxter was one of the many well-known glass designers who worked at Whitefriars. He joined the factory in 1954 after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Geofrey Baxter had a great influence on the very collectable Whitefriars table and domestic glass designs.

Pair Powell Arts and Crafts Glass Comports

An Abundance of Victorian Glass

Victorian mass production techniques has left the Victorian Glass Collector with an abundance of choice. Manufacturers and designers like Stourbridge, Sowerby, Jobling, Davidson were innovative and dynamic. American glass companies like the New England Glass Works, Mount Washington Glass Co., and Hobbs, Brockunier & Co (Wheeling). Libbey and Dorflinger also became known for brilliant cut glass.

Thomas Webb Vaseline Glass Vase

Pearline and Vaseline Glass

Vaseline Glass is a particular color of yellow-green glass that is made by adding 2% Uranium Dioxide to the ingredients. The range of makers, styles and age is diverse and many of the current sources of vaseline glass are American glassmakers, with several of these still in production. Davidson's lemon pearline is a very collectable form of vaseline glass as is anything by Thomas Webb.

Northwood Carnival Glass Cherry Pattern Bowl

Collectable Carnival Glass

Carnival glass was first produced in the early nineteen hundreds, and is a range of patterned, pressed glass suffused with an iridescent lustre, that reflects the light and makes the surface of the glass gleam with metallic highlights. The most common shade of carnival glass is marigold, then amethyst, blue, green and red, which is probably the rarest of all.

Baccarat Joan of Arc Paperweight

Baccarat Glass

Baccarat Glass was established in 1765 by the Bishop of Metz. The technique of embedding millefiori canes was taken over by Baccarat in the 1840s and lead crystal Baccarat glass paperweights with millefiori designs surpass anything produced in that period

Fenton Art Glass Hobnail Candle Holder

Fenton Art Glass

In late 1907, Fenton Glass introduced Iridescent glass designs now known as the very popular and highly collectible carnival glass. The Fenton hobnail glass line is a very much sought after and was a Fenton top seller when it was first introduced around 1939. The exceedingly rare Bottle No.289, which ensured Fenton's prosperity when it was introduced is one of the most desireable items of Fenton Glass.

Rene Lalique Glass Falcon Car Mascot

Rene Lalique Glass

In the 1920s Rene Lalique became famous for his work in the Art Deco style he created glass perfume bottles for Coty and for Worth, Forvil, D'Orsay, Guerlain and Rogeret et Gallet. Lalique also successfully turned his hand to decorating the bonnets of cars and created 29 glass car mascots in the shapes of fish, horse heads, frogs, dragonflys, shooting stars and St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child. Female nudes were also a favorite design.