english cameo glass in the corning museum of glass
english cameo glass in the corning museum of glass
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FIG. 32. Nymph <strong>in</strong> a Crescent Moon or Luna, attributed to Ludwig Kny.<br />
Jules Barbe was a French gilder and enameler.<br />
He exhibited his work at <strong>the</strong> Paris exposition<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1878, and a year later he went to Stourbridge.<br />
Barbe was employed at <strong>the</strong> Dennis Glass Works,<br />
where he <strong>in</strong>troduced <strong>the</strong> "raised" gilded decoration<br />
shown opposite. This consisted <strong>of</strong> a paste<br />
made <strong>of</strong> gold, mercury, and o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>in</strong>gredients. It<br />
was pa<strong>in</strong>ted on <strong>the</strong> <strong>glass</strong> and fired <strong>in</strong> a muffle<br />
furnace fueled with oak wood. After anneal<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
<strong>the</strong> gild<strong>in</strong>g was burnished with spun <strong>glass</strong> brushes.<br />
Barbe worked for Webb's until 1901, when<br />
he became a free-lance decorator. F. Kretsch-<br />
FIG. 31. Gourd vase, 1888.<br />
man, who engraved <strong>the</strong> gourd vase, is known to<br />
have lived <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Stourbridge area from 1886 to<br />
1892.<br />
Frederick Engelbert Kny was one <strong>of</strong> several<br />
Bohemian <strong>glass</strong>workers employed at <strong>the</strong> Dennis<br />
Glass Works (William Fritsche was ano<strong>the</strong>r). Kny<br />
came to Amblecote <strong>in</strong> 1860, and, like Fritsche, he<br />
became a skilled engraver <strong>of</strong> colorless <strong>glass</strong>es decorated<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> high-relief "Rock Crystal" style.<br />
Among <strong>the</strong> best known <strong>of</strong> his works was <strong>the</strong><br />
Elg<strong>in</strong> Jug (1873), a claret jug decorated with<br />
friezes <strong>of</strong> horsemen copied from Flaxman's illustrations<br />
for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The<br />
Elg<strong>in</strong> Jug—not to be confused with John Northwood's<br />
Elg<strong>in</strong> Vase (see page 17)—was exhibited<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Paris exhibition <strong>of</strong> 1878.