Bohemian Cobalt Blue Wine Glasses with Cut Glass Decoration
Six Bohemian cobalt blue stemmed wine glasses with cut glass grape and floral decoration, height 8.27 in.
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- Cut Glass - Cut glass is glassware decorated with facets, grooves and depressions of various sizes and shapes, made by cutting into the surface of the glass using a rotating abrasive wheel. The glass is ground so the surface consists of facets, which have a high degree of light refraction, so that the surface sparkles.
The techniques of glass cutting had been known since the 8th century BC, and the practice was revived in Bohemia and Germany in the early part of the 16th century and in England in the 18th century. Cutting became the most common method of decorating glass in the second half of the 18th century and the early 19th century.
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- Bohemian (Czech Republic) glass wares
