Victorian glass vase and red liner (1860)
According to legend ruby glass was first created discovered in 4th Century when a noble tossed a pure gold coin into a mixture of molten glass. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the craft was lost and rediscovered only in the 17th Century by several chemists and glassmakers, but none of them understood the mechanism which produced the crimson colour. It only until chemist and winner of 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Richard Adolf Zsingmondy, determined that small colloids of gold were responsible for the red colour of cranberry glass. Thus this vase is part of the most famous period of cranberry glass production - 19th Century Victorian Britain.
Product Information:
Maker: Edward. Edward Junior. Edward Barnard
Date: 1860
Location: London, UK
Material: Sterling Silver
Size: 14 x 14 x 19 cm
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