What is BRISTOL BLUE GLASS? What does BRISTOL BLUE GLASS mean? BRISTOL BLUE GLASS meaning
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What is BRISTOL BLUE GLASS? What does BRISTOL BLUE GLASS mean? BRISTOL BLUE GLASS meaning - BRISTOL BLUE GLASS definition - BRISTOL BLUE GLASS explanation.
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Bristol blue glass has been made in Bristol, England, since the 18th century, with a break between the 1920s and 1980s.
During the late 18th century Richard Champion, a Bristol merchant and potter, making porcelain, was working with a chemist, William Cookworthy. Cookworthy began a search for good quality cobalt oxide to give the blue glaze decoration on the white porcelain and obtained exclusive import rights to all the cobalt oxide from the Royal Saxon Cobalt Works in Saxony. It is uncertain when Bristol blue glass was first made but the quality and beauty of the glass swiftly gained popularity, with seventeen glass houses being set up in the city.
Lazurus and Isaac Jacobs were the most famous makers of Bristol blue glass in the 1780s. Lazarus Jacobs was a Jewish immigrant to Bristol from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Isaac joined his father's glass cutting firm at 108 Temple Street, Bristol, and launched Bristol Blue glass as a national brand, using the cobalt oxide Cookworthy imported. Isaac was responsible for the great growth of the company, and the expansion of its goods. Their company held a royal warrant and made glass for the aristocrats of Europe. Bristol’s glass makers were invited to demonstrate their skills at the Great Exhibition of 1851, opened by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. At this period cranberry glass was made for the first time by adding 24 carat gold to lead crystal, giving the glass its ruby red tones.
Production ceased in about 1923. Bristol James Adlington and Peter Sinclair, held their Hot Glass 1988 exhibition, at Hand Made Glass, Bristol. This exhibition led to a revival of Bristol's hand blown glass industry and the creation of a Company that has spawned the careers of many other studio Glassmakers in the South west. Today, Bristol Blue Glass is produced by The Original Bristol Blue Glass Ltd in Brislington, established in 1988.
In the 1990s, John Harvey & Sons of Bristol began to sell Bristol Cream sherry in bottles made from Bristol blue.
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The history of the enterprising Platt family goes back over 200 years, when they established a grist and saw mill on the Naugatuck River in the south end at what became Platt's Mill Road. By 1825, the Platts were producing wire and button eyes, which led to the manufacture of ferrous and non-ferrous buttons. The company came together in 1847 as A. Platt and Company, involved in the manufacture of rolled zinc products and metal buttons. The Platts began producing stampings and drawn eyelet components about 1875. After the raging flood on the Naugatuck River virtually destroyed the plant in 1955, the company, now The Platt Brothers and Company, erected a modern manufacturing facility at the current location on South Main Street.
One of the first full-length sound motion pictures was made at the studios of the Bristol Co. at Platts Mills by Professor William H. Bristol, who experimented for years with sound pictures. In 1927 he gave a lecture at the Franklin Institute on synchronized talking motion pictures His Talking Picture Corp. also became involved in improving loudspeakers, amplifiers, announcing systems and phonograph recording reproduction.
Professor Bristol invented gauges used worldwide to accurately measure air, gas, and steam pressure and temperature to monitor plant conditions, eliminate wasteful processes and help industry get control over production. Bristol is mentioned in Electrical World magazine of Oct. 14, 1893. He received awards at expositions in St. Louis, Paris, San Francisco, Philadelphia and the Chicago World Columbian Exposition of 1893.
The 17-acre Bristol Company property on Bristol Street contained a large manufacturing complex of 15 buildings, an Administration Building, a maintenance garage, and an employee athletic field.
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c. 1790s English Georgian Amatory Pendant with Pearl and Bristol Glass Miniature of Flaming Heart
A stunning c. 1790s English Georgian sentimental brooch-pendant, featuring an intricate amatory miniature of a flaming heart pierced by cupid’s arrow, raised on a column-plinth beneath a festooned canopy and atop a taupe ground framed by reeds. The three-dimensional miniature has been painstakingly fashioned from a pearl carved in the shape of a heart, seed pearls, tiny glass microbeads, mother-of-pearl, gold beads and wire, and crushed gum-bound hair. The royal blue ground is foiled bristol glass. The navette-shaped rose gold body is framed by a halo of seed pearls and set with a domed crystal quartz compartment (tested); the back is fitted with a brooch pin, round pendant bail, and a safety pin attachment. The design and rendering of the flaming heart closely mirrors much older ‘Sacratissimum Cor Iesu’ (latin, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) in devotional heart, originally a symbol of Christ’s passionate love for mankind. By the mid-18th century rococo era, a period when jewelry design transitioned from being largely dominated by religious subjects to more secular themes, the flaming heart also came to represent extreme romantic passion. In this particular pendant, the lance that would have pierced a religious Sacred Heart has been replaced by an arrow, the symbol of Cupid. The column supporting the flaming heart symbolizes strength and the marriage altar. Navette-shaped amatory jewels featuring pearl miniatures against blue enamel or bristol glass grounds were extremely popular during the 1790s; page 145 of Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830 by Ginny Redington Dawes with Oliva Collings illustrates an extensive selection of this type. Several are also in the British Museum collection (accession numbers 1978,1002.342, 1978.1002.942a, and 1978,1002.810).
Date: 1790s, Georgian era
Materials: blue bristol glass, pearls, glass microbeads, gold wire, crushed gum-bound hair, quartz crystal (tested), 12k rose gold (unmarked; tested with electronic gold tester & nitric-muriatic acid)
Weight: 8.2 grams
Workmanship origin: English
Height of pendant: 42.5 mm (including bail), 37 mm (excluding bail)
Width of pendant: 22 mm
Depth of pendant: 6.8 mm
Condition: this pendant came to me with all elements original except for the left festoon ribbon beneath the canopy; the beads for this section could not be recovered in entirety, so my jeweler attached replacements. Other work during the restoration included a light clean of grime, dust, and residue; this was followed by re-attaching loose pearls, beads, and wires with hxtal nyl-1 (an optically clear epoxy used by museum conservators to repair porcelain and glass). The silver foiling behind the bristol glass is tarnished or worn in parts. The miniature cover tests as clear quartz; its superior hardness to glass means it has survived without significant wear or abrasions, though light age-related scratches are visible. The back of the pendant also has some age-related surface wear, including a few illegible lightly scratched numbers (possibly a dealer’s inventory number from the past). Otherwise this pendant is in excellent antique condition.
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