Within the broader context of 18th century drinking glasses there are certain areas which form the basis of specialist collecting fields. One of these is Beilby glassware, a class mostly of drinking ...
Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...
The early 20th century saw the appearance of beautiful, elaborate glass lampshades. The Pairpoint company in New Bedford, Massachusetts, started making lamps in 1890. Their most famous — and ...