20 Facts About Engraved glass

Engraved glass is a type of decorated glass that involves shallowly engraving the surface of a glass object, either by holding it against a rotating wheel, or manipulating a "diamond point" in the style of an engraving burin.

Usually the engraved surface is left "frosted" so a difference is visible, while in cut glass the cut surface is polished to restore transparency.

Engraved glass retained some niches, and was sometimes used in art glass and later studio glass, but no longer had its former importance, although there has been a revival in Britain, with many public commissions for large window-size pieces.

Much Engraved glass remains in private collections, and many museums do not display much of their holdings, and often do not display them to the best advantage, which is usually against a dark background.

Tools for wheel-engraving Engraved glass are typically small abrasive wheels and drills, with small lathes often used.

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Abrasive is sprayed through a sandblasting gun onto Engraved glass which is masked up by a piece of stencil in order to produce inscriptions or images.

Engraving on Roman Engraved glass was mostly of ornamental patterns, but some figurative images were made, apparently from the 2nd century AD onwards, more often on bowls or plates than cups.

Medieval Venetian Engraved glass used engraving for ornament, but it was generally subordinate to elaborate "hot work" effects, and work in enamelled Engraved glass.

The Engraved glass made in this movement is called "facon de Venise" ; the quality is typically rather lower than the Venetian originals, partly from difficulties sourcing the right materials, and the place of manufacture is often hard to discern.

Engraved glass was a part of this diffusion, and initially was especially developed in Germany.

Engraved glass's workshop developed a style with a large amount of simple but attractive engraving, much of it floral, and with the shapes filled in with parallel lines throughout.

The Habsburg court moved to Vienna after Rudolf's death but the Bohemian Engraved glass industry continued to grow in strength, reaching a peak of importance in the 18th century.

In Bohemia chalk was added to the basic potash-lime Engraved glass, increasing its strength, workability and refractive index.

Elsewhere in Germany, "patriotic decoration tended to be the norm", and glass engraving tended to be centred on the many princely courts, many of which had a Hofkrystalschneider or court glass engraver with his workshop working largely to service the court, including making glasses, often engraved with his portrait, for the prince to give as presents.

German Jacob Sang, from a Engraved glass-making family of Weimar, was active in Amsterdam from 1752 to 1762.

Engraved glass was one of the most outstanding professionals, making extremely detailed wheel-engraved scenes.

English engraving scaled no artistic heights, and the greatest English contribution to Engraved glass engraving was Ravenscroft's improved type of lead Engraved glass, which was exported and then imitated in at least northern Europe.

On earlier Engraved glass there were many simple inscriptions, some political, as in "Jacobite Engraved glass" inscribed with toasts to the exiled House of Stuart, or Jacobite emblems, some rather covert.

Hutton's other commissions for monumental Engraved glass included work at Guildford Cathedral, the national Library and Archives Canada, and many other sites around Britain and the world.

Engraved glass developed a new technique for large pieces, using an angle grinder.