Lalique Of Paris Produced: Modern glass. The art of the glass-workers was developed to an extraordinary degree during the latter years of the 19th century. In Bohemia, France, and Sweden, glass designers concentrated their efforts on inventing new forms, types, and colors. Louis Tiffany of New York developed an iridescent glass of great brilliance and luster. In the early years of the 20th century Lalique of Paris produced a luminous, transparent glass, ornamented by pressing and by alternating polished and dull surfaces. He designed tableware, ornaments, and Lighting fixtures. Many of his designs were sculptural and architectural in character.
In January of the following year he was imprisoned on a charge of inciting to insurrection. After the fall of the empire he became a member of the provisional government of national defense, but, out of sympathy with it, he inclined toward the radical element that produced the Commune of Paris. In May 1871, Rochefort fled from Paris, but he was captured and sentenced by a court-martial to deportation.
During the 19th century, factories in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland manufactured bottles and flasks for various purposes, many of which have become collector's items, due to their color, shape, or unusual design. They were made in yellow, amber, various greens, aquamarine, sapphire blue, pink, red amber, amethyst, lavender, and moonstone, the latter now very rare. The flasks were of both opaque and clear glass, decorated with ribbed, swirled, or diamond designs, or made in the shape of violins and log cabins. Among the most desirable to the collector are those decorated with historical or political themes, pictures of famous persons, masonic emblems, and American eagle or other patriotic designs.
Modern glass. The art of the glass-workers was developed to an extraordinary degree during the latter years of the 19th century. In Bohemia, France, and Sweden, glass designers concentrated their efforts on inventing new forms, types, and colors. Louis Tiffany of New York developed an iridescent glass of great brilliance and luster. In the early years of the 20th century Lalique of Paris produced a luminous, transparent glass, ornamented by pressing and by alternating polished and dull surfaces. He designed tableware, ornaments, and Lighting fixtures. Many of his designs were sculptural and architectural in character.
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