Baccarat Glass for sale.
Baccarat Glass was established in 1765 by the Bishop of Metz who wanted to build industry in the little village of Baccarat, some 250 miles east of Paris. The Verrerie de Sainte Anne at Baccarat made all kinds of utility glassware, from windows to bottles and tableware. They flourished for many years surviving the French Revolution (1789) but struggling through the Napoleonic Wars (1812-1815).
Baccarat is famous for its stunning paperweights, its superb crystal glass tableware, for 19th century colored lead crystal glass and opaline glassware, for beautiful decanters and bottles, and for superb lead crystal sculptures of animals and birds.
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 from Bohemia or Venice.
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.