Art Glass Photos

Cadmium

Even broken glass can sometimes give inspiration and demonstrates the fragile beauty. This was taken to demonstrate to the sender of the parcel that, a) it was glass that contained cadmium, and b) it got broken in transit!

Selenium

Selenium glows a pale pink/orange under UV light and sometimes the results can give a startling contrast when the violet background is visible.

Uranium

Same vase, different camera – just goes to show how different cameras can interpret uranium glass under UV (top is Fuji, bottom is Nikon).

Neither photo was edited in any way.

Carnival

The iridescence of Carnival Glass gives so many opportunities for some classy photos — even if this piece is actually a fake piece of Northwood!

Fratelli Tosa?

Some dispute over the attribution of this Murano dish; either Fratelli Tosa or A.Ve.M... but what the hell – a nice edge shot showing the silver inclusions in the deep cobalt-blue glass.

Cenedese Elephant

At least I think it's Cenedese... a superb glass sculpture with puleguso body splattered with large gobs of copper aventurine. Large and very heavy but, believe it or not, I actually gave this away as a present!

Chance

Even the cheap end of glass collecting can produce some gems. A ruby Chance Fiestaware dish, featuring the 'Swirl' pattern in gilt. The JPEG image actually gave poor results so was saved as a GIF.

Paperweight

The intricate and diverse designs of paperweights make it easy to take good-looking, surreal photos with little effort!