Pressed Glass for sale
The introduction of pressed glass revolutionised the way in which glass was manufactured and its availability to the general population. For the first time, ordinary people were able to buy affordable decorative glass objects as well as domestic glassware. The Sowerby factory started producing pressed glass items in coloured glass and eventually launched a range, called vitro-porcelain, that resembled porcelain from the Wedgwood factory.
Pressed glass has been dismissed throughout the years because it was aimed at the mass market, with critics ignoring the ground-breaking manufacturing techniques used in glass making and their artistic quality. In the past, the glass was dismissed as junk purely because some of it was ugly - only the Victorians could have created a vase decorated with animals that have swans heads, lions feet and huge wings.
But pressed glass can now be worth a lot of money with items in mint condition reaching thousands of pounds. Coloured items, particularly blue and yellow are very sought after and command high prices, whereas flint is often cheaper.
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.