Antique Glass for Sale.
Antique Glass for Sale and Buying Antique Glass 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 collector access to some of the most beautiful items artists and designers have ever produced.
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.In Britain art deco glass was produced by Joblings, Bagley, Stevens & Williams, Davidson, Sowerby, and Moncrieff. In Belgium there was a series of Art Deco pieces made by Val St. Lambert, and in Germany it was made by Auguste Walther and Sohne. Art Deco Glass is very beautiful and highly collectible.
Art Nouveau glass was made by many great artists, including Emile Galle, Louis C. Tiffany, the Daum brothers at Daum Nancy, Muller Freres, Loetz, and the Powells at Whitefriars. Think of a sensuous line: of a flowing line: a line which bends and turns back on itself. Think of the feminine form, rounded and curving. Think of plant forms growing and burgeoning. Think of flowers in bud, in over-blown blossom, as seed pods. Think of waves, think 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.
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.
Collectable Whitefriars Glass for Sale
Collecting 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.
Popular Victorian Glass for Sale
The Victorians mass production, their wealth and aspirations 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.
Vaseline Glass is a particular color of yellow-green glass that is made by adding 2% Uranium Dioxide to the ingredients when the glass formula is manufactured. 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.
Collectable Carnival Glass for Sale
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. America was the first country to produce carnival glass in commercial quantities and the five biggest companies were Northwood, Fenton, Imperial, Dugan and Millersburg. Each carnival glass manufacturer had their own specialities. The most common shade of carnival glass is marigold, then amethyst, blue, green and red, which is probably the rarest of all.
Beautiful Baccarat Glass for Sale
Baccarat is famous for its stunning paperweights, its superb crystal glass tableware, for 19th century coloured lead crystal glass and opaline glassware, for beautiful decanters and bottles, and for superb lead crystal sculptures of animals and birds. 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 their lead crystal glass paperweights with millefiori designs surpass anything produced in that period
In late 1907, Fenton Glass introduced Iridescent glass designs and this type of glass, now known as carnival glass, is a very popular and highly collectible glass today. 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 item sof Fenton Glass.
In the 1920s Rene Lalique became famous for his work in the Art Deco style and among other things he was responsible for the walls of lighted glass and the elegant glass columns that filled the dining room and grand salon of the SS Normandie. He began creating glass perfume bottles for Coty and was asked to do the same for Worth, Forvil, D'Orsay, Guerlain and Rogeret et Gallet. In all, Rene Lalique created more than 250 different perfume bottles. Lalique also successfully turned his hand to decorating the bonnets of cars and in line with his love of the human and animal form, lalique created 29 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. Lalique car mascots and perfume bottles are very collectable.
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.
Art Deco glass uses geometric patterns, bold colours, exuberant, sometimes stylised, female figures, and animal motifs. Major designers of Art Deco glass were Rene Lalique, Maurice Marinot, Daum Freres, Marius Sabino, Etling, Schneider, Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, and Francois Decorchemont.