Veteran glass artist Wint Harris demonstrates a hand blown vase
Last stages of me making a blown glass vase (amphora) on 11/21/2009
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Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. -– October 1, 2011 – Estate ...
With local areas and collections of Raleigh, NC, Cary, NC, and Charleston, SC. Offerings include silver jewelry estate, paintings, furniture, carpets, works on paper, clocks, decorative accessories, pottery, and more! No reserve! Absentee and phone bidding available!
Sale: Saturday, October 1, 2011, 13:00
Previews: Friday, 30 August 10 am-17 hours, Saturday, Oct. 1, 10-heures 13 hours.
Location: Auction Gallery, 620 Cornerstone Court, Hillsborough
Directions: I-85 exit 165, towards downtown Hillsborough, left on Cornerstone Court.
Sale partial listing:
Assortment: A pair of crystal wine glasses Lalique, 19th Century Transferware tureen with undertray, "Chinese Flora," Blue and white plate, "Wild Rose" the 19th century Blue and White servers covered by Clews "Castle" and Heath Burslem , 19th century Chinese compass / sundial; Rockingham redware shoe-shaped bottle; room candidate Nixon in 1972, the level of the artillery with leather case by Cooke Troughton & Simms, dated 1928, Old Sheffield Plate mug, 19th century advertising Hennessy St.Bernard, dated 1953, German 20th century figurative Stein, Alfred Dunhill of London humidor, 19th century English silverplate made cheese, stone fruits, Set of Meissen handled forks and knives to sterling ferrule, Bavarian vase leaf motif; Teapot 19th century with the stand; 19th century, Royal Crown Derby pair of plates; Collection of 19th century transferware; Coalport Cup & Saucer, Spode "Imari" Cup & Saucer, Set of Copeland Spode, "Peacock" plates, Royal Worcester A pair of plates 19th century Meissen "Ming Red Dragon" plateau English "plateau Parisian Granite" blue and white Victorian-style Pair of Staffordshire children, (3) parts.Mintons put dessert doorbell Victorian "Bull Durham" house in Durham, Pair of French holders bisqueware is figurative, (6) figurative Victorian fairings, circa 1900 Brass Desk Set overlay; 19th century Art Deco Imari bowl , (2) Blown glass decanter; Several elements of the 19th century cloisonné; 19th century Rosewood with inlay abalone tea and a bowl cut glass mixing; Copeland Spode 3-pc.Hunt tea party set, pots de crème created Italian, Danish silverplate gravy boat with undertray, Royal Doulton "Top of the Hill" and "Autumn Breeze" figures, Swarovski crystals, the Royal Copenhagen animals, including Dachshunds, grouping musician Capodimonte, Victorian silverplate pitcher set, Silver overlay vase Gustavsberg, Sweden, Argenta, the service great dinner by Copeland Spode, "Great Britain - Gainsborough," Silverplate hollow; Minton partial game, sold by Tiffany & Co.; Vintage Venetian glass compote and a pair of candlesticks; Set Villeroy & Boch "Basket" China, collecting large pewter, goblets, candlesticks, assorted; Bulova clock; Louisiana cups of tea and green glass stemware, vintage camera Kowa; Mottahedeh goose terrine style porcelain century Chinese Export 18th, Lenox, Fostoria, vintage mink coat labeled "The Penthouse Boutique," Fitz & Floyd "Holly" service Porcelain, Royal Worcester "Evesham" porcelain service, Royal Doulton "My Love" figure; royal coat Austrian Vase, circa 1900; 19th century Rosewood Tea; pair of 19th century porcelain pot of gold Paris; Silverplate mirror plateau; Pair of pink glass chandeliers lower cased mantle prisms; Pair of SanLouis crystal decanters; Sally Prang ceramic vase, ceramic Natalie Boorman ship Waterbury clock, table lamp shade toleware black base with three brass chandeliers, Regency style brass fountain tea with handles of bone ; Lenox "Directory" service china; Vasiform Pair of table lamps in brass & Pair of Faux malachite obelisks brass table lamps Pair of Asian style with shades of silk, African sculptures, (2) Persian hookahs; English "Indian Tree" china service; 19th century copper and silver luster; clock sessions, Pair of Ruby cut to clear vases cloak Oak Art Deco mantel clock, Ben Owen III vase, and more!
Lampwork Art | Jewelry and bead tips
Glass Vocabulary: glassmaking techniques and other vocabulary A to Z – Part 2
Dichromatic glass: Glass which shows different colors when seen with either transmitted or reflected light.
Drops: Blobs of glass applied for decoration or to facilitate holding. Alternatively, this word could mean cut glass ornaments or lusters hung from chandeliers.
Enamels: Finely powdered glass and metallic oxides mixed with substances such as oil, and painted onto glass and subsequently fired.
Engraving: The decorative incision of the surface by use of wheels or of diamond or sharp-pointed tools to make linear or dotted designs.
Etching: matting or removing a surface of glass by exposure to hydrofluoric acid or its derivatives....
Ancient Medieval & Post Medieval Glass | Bristol Blue Glass Museum
Natural glass in the form obsidian dates back several hundred million years, and was formed as a result of volcanic activity and intense pressure. Manufactured glass was first discovered in the Near East, and was developed in Egypt and Mesopotamia from about 3500 B.C. The Egyptians produced glass vases and bowls by winding molten glass onto a clay mould. When the glass cooled, the clay was removed, leaving the hollow shape. It was the Romans, however, who in about 100 B.C. discovered the art of glass blowing, and the methods they devised are still in use today. The Romans spread the art of glass making throughout the Empire, producing not only vases and bottles and urns, but also window glass, used in the most lavish of Roman villas, and glass tesserrae for flooring and decorative mosaic work.
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, glass-blowing as an art almost died out in Western Europe, only remaining in isolated pockets of activity, such as Cologne in Germany. By the end of the seventh century we have records of Benedict Biscop importing glass-workers from France in order to produce window glass for his new church of St. Peter’s Monkswearmouth, in 674/5. The Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions dealt a further blow to glass-making in England, and glass became used almost entirely only for jewellery and applied decoration and ornament. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the art of glass blowing was re-imported from the Middle East, (where it had continued to flourish) mainly through the Venetian trade-routes, and gradually spread again throughout Western Europe.
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