Glass Art and Optical Illusions

As an artistic medium, glass can be used creatively to create some very interesting optical illusions, bending and refracting light and images to trick the eye in endless ways. The optical and physical properties of glass make it an ideal medium for captivating the eye and the mind.
Even the stem of an ordinary wine glass [...]

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The Heisey Glass Company

Heisey Glass is popular among collectors of Elegant glass and well know for its Diamond H mark [...]

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The Blenko Glass Company

One of America’s iconic glass making companies, Blenko has operated continuously since 1921 in West Virginia.

Begun as a stained glass manufacturer, Blenko turned to stemware and tableware during the Depression and later became identified with the American studio glass movement [...]

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Wine Glasses

Like the fine wine meant to be consumed from them, there is more behind quality wine glasses than meets the eye.

Bowl shape, stem and foot must be considered, along with the material and technique used to make a fine wine glass [...]

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Glass Art

If you want to appreciate the craft of glass art, it helps to begin by knowing a little about the history of the medium and the studio glass art movement.

Glass art developed out of the glassmaking industry and has now evolved to include hand and mold glass blowing, stained and etched glass techniques and glass sculpture [...]

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Laurel Glass Pattern from Mckee

Laurel is the most popular glass pattern that was produced by the Mckee Glass Company [...]

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Spode China History

The history of Spode China is steeped in history and tradition as the company continues to produce some of the most popular china tableware patterns even today [...]

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Giuseppe Armani Figurines

Giuseppe Armani created unique and highly sought after glass figurines.For over twenty years, Guiseppe Armani created masterpieces of figurines that ranged from the very traditional to the more contemporary or daring sculptures.
They were infused with the most amazing breathtaking realism, and an innate spark of life.
Armani was born in Italy in 1935, and from the [...]

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Fenton Art Glass Figurines

Designer Dave Fetty’s Fairy Light is among his popular glass creations and designs.A skilled glassworker, Dave Fetty spent more than forty years in the glassmaking industry, retiring in 1999.
Dave began with Fenton in 1964, after spending time learning the trade of glass making in Milton West Virginia, working with he Blenko Glass Company, were he [...]

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Tiffany Glass

Among the best known glass designers in history, Louis Comfort Tiffany is famed for the highest quality Favrile glassware his studio produced in the early 20th century.

Highly collectible and revered for the Tiffany name, authentic Favrile vases, bowls and other glassware items bear the LCT mark [...]

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