3-008-649 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The International Exhibition: Bohemian glass, by Harrach of Bohemia, and Hofmann of Prague, in the Austrian Court, 1862. 'The central object...has its dishes and central column wrought of red glass cut into flat facets enriched with burnished gold...Both the large urn, or cup-shaped vessel, and the small vase in front of the dessert-dish, are in imitation malachite, the opaque striae and convolutions resulting from white glass being mingled with the dark green material of which they are formed...The elongated vase mounted on a pedestal...is formed of transparent green glass, which has been covered externally with white enamel, now in part cut away in order to reveal the green material of which the vase is formed...The covered jar...is formed of red glass covered with white enamel, cut away in order that the pattern may appear in the colour of the glass...The ewer-like vase has the handle and the large scolloped leaves which encompass it formed of blue glass enriched with gold, while the remainder is transparent, decorated with engraved flowers...the other vase is red, rendered opaque by being coated internally with white enamel. The ornament wrought upon its surface is made out in black and gold'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.