GORGEOUS CAMEO GLASS BOWL WITH LANDSCAPE.Galle was known for his beautiful floral and landscape motifs on glass vase and lamps. These pieces offered for sale represent that clearly. Impressive in both shape and beauty, this bowl is adorned with intaglio cut landscape. Completely hand crafted with layers of mouth-blown glass, the design comes to life with layering and acid etching techniques on various layers to bring out the colours. This vase is brand new and is a high quality reproduction of the original design by Emile Galle. CAMEO GLASS is a technique similar to the cameo cutting of stones and shells use by the ancient Egyptians and Romans, and revived in the nineteenth century. The technique involves cased glass, or the overlaying of several thin layers of different colored glass, two and three and more rarely four or five, and then to acid-etch or wheel carve the design of one color on another in relief. The difficulty of this technique lies in the fact that various layers must have the same dilation coefficient and the same thickness in order to avoid any breaking while the piece is cooling, or when working in the glass once it is cold. The chemical composition of each colored layer of glass is therefore decisive and kept secret.
H13cm W34cm
SKU Code V-248
Postage $19.90 per item anywhere in Australia |