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cimoreneThe name for the material that makes mid-20th-c. Murano glass lights/lamps look so incredibly biteable and candylike is cased glass.
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The effect is caused by a colored layer of glass fused over an opaline/milk glass white layer; cased glass is any combination of two or more differently-colored layers, often with the opaque white on the outside or all the layers colored, and often with the outer layer etched or cut away to create a design. Cutaway and etched cased glass effects apparently go back to ancient times. The most familiar examples to many, however, will be 19th century antiques, particularly the then-wildly-popular Bohemian art glass (often further embellished with gold leaf and other painted-on designs), as seen in the ornate red and white objects in the top rows of images here and our heirloom Bohemian cranberry glass candy bowl here:
I haven't found a specific term for the color-over-milk cased glass that produces this luscious candy effect, but it was a very popular technique in the midcentury, not only in Murano glass, obviously. You can see a lot of Empoli (art glass center near Florence) cased glass from the period in luscious rows here.
1. Modern midcentury-style Italian mouthblown pendant lamp by the Murano masters at Millefiori
2. A vintage Yugoslavian blown glass pendant lamp
3. Vintage Italian pendant lamps by Venini
All the images were posted recently at my decorative arts Tumblr
The effect is caused by a colored layer of glass fused over an opaline/milk glass white layer; cased glass is any combination of two or more differently-colored layers, often with the opaque white on the outside or all the layers colored, and often with the outer layer etched or cut away to create a design. Cutaway and etched cased glass effects apparently go back to ancient times. The most familiar examples to many, however, will be 19th century antiques, particularly the then-wildly-popular Bohemian art glass (often further embellished with gold leaf and other painted-on designs), as seen in the ornate red and white objects in the top rows of images here and our heirloom Bohemian cranberry glass candy bowl here:
I haven't found a specific term for the color-over-milk cased glass that produces this luscious candy effect, but it was a very popular technique in the midcentury, not only in Murano glass, obviously. You can see a lot of Empoli (art glass center near Florence) cased glass from the period in luscious rows here.
