Circalate 19th century iridescent art glass JUG,
- signed“Webb's Patent, J.T.HR”,
- Bronze line (patented 1877),
- heavy blue glass,
- mildcrackle iridescent surface,
- applied handle,
- applied trails (snakes), knobs andlower stretched slugs.
10.25” tall, 7.5” dia. Weight- 5.5 lbs.
Condition – overall body is good (no chips or cracks).
Applied decoration - two applied trails (snakes)have smaller ends missing, one knob partially missing, one knob chipped, (photos 9,10). 244h
- This is a large example and high amount ofapplied decorations of this sought after type of glass.
- Thomas Webb & Sons applied forpatent for this glass in August 29, 1877, granted Feb 27, 1878.Displayed Bronze glass at the 1878 Paris exhibition.
- This line was developed to imitate the early “classical”Roman, Pompeii, Egyptian glass discovered in the 19th century whichhad a natural iridescence due to contact with the ground.
- This was the beginning of handmade iridescent glass thatculminated near and after the 1900's with LC Tiffany and also in the moremass-produced/lesser priced ware now known as carnival glass.
- Bronze glass is typically done on green glass incomparison to this example on blue.
- August29, 1878:"the following commentary by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, with specificreference to Tho. Webb and Sons Bronze Glass appeared. On a recent visit toMr Goodes attractive galleries at Audley Street, we noticed a fine selectionof the new Bronze Glass, discovered and made by Messrs. Thomas Webb and Sons,of Stourbridge. Its purple bronze surface shines with the hues of the rainbow,such as they appear on molten lead, or on pieces of steel which have beentempered in gradually diminishing degrees of heat.......The shapes are inpreference borrowed from Dr Schliemanns finds at Troy and Mycenae, owl facedand curiously lipped vessels predominating....It has already attractedconsiderable attention at the Paris Exhibition."
- See ppgs 247-248 in “Nineteenth Century Glass” by A CRevi.
In 1877, T. Webb introduced Bronze glass. The patent was applied for on August 29, 1877and granted on February 27, 1878. Bronze glass was a form of iridescentfinish made to compete with Bohemian products of that time. Thistreatment was to mimic Roman and other ancient glass, being excavated at thetime, which had a natural iridescence due to soil contact. Bronze glassis a close cousin to the later mass produced American carnival glass. Itis produced by exposure of the glass in a semi-molten state to fumes ofchloride of tin, alone or mixed, with the nitrates of barium andstrontium.
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