. American homes and gardens. d Bohemian glass ter, carried their glass to the mountain retreats to be fired, scription is in Dutch and it bears the date figures of 1664. Wonderful pieces of engraved glass and pieces painted in Harking back to Bohemian glass as an industry one finds enamel coloring were carefully and pat-iently worked out in the upper villageswhere water power was abundant. Into the world of glass came CasperLehnman, a Bohemian who had redis-covered the art of glass cutting, and bya hitherto unknown method of engrav-ing, opened up a new field for decorativeart in glass. He tra
. American homes and gardens. d Bohemian glass ter, carried their glass to the mountain retreats to be fired, scription is in Dutch and it bears the date figures of 1664. Wonderful pieces of engraved glass and pieces painted in Harking back to Bohemian glass as an industry one finds enamel coloring were carefully and pat-iently worked out in the upper villageswhere water power was abundant. Into the world of glass came CasperLehnman, a Bohemian who had redis-covered the art of glass cutting, and bya hitherto unknown method of engrav-ing, opened up a new field for decorativeart in glass. He transmitted his secretto one of his pupils, George Schwan-hard, who continued the work, makinggreat improvements in the methods ofhis master, until all Europe went madover this wonderful engraved glass, andnothing else would sell. It was thenthat Bohemian engravers, through ascarcity of material, or possibly with adesire to fill a special order of somewealthy patron, went so far as to placetheir engraving on Venetian vases which. that it reached the height of its popular-ity about the middle of the eighteenthcentury. It was at that time the leadingindustry, not only in Bohemia but inSilesia as well. At that period enormousquantities of glass were manufactured,and they met with ready sales. The shape of the pieces was unique,for each one was specially designed bythe workmen at Bohemia. Their de-signs were not, however, always consid-ered by critics as effective. They con-sisted, generally, of a series of lines,each one of which was placed near eachother, seemingly to see how much couldbe done in a limited space. The ideas of formation were extens-ively copied by the French, who took upthis line of industry, but their designswere changed into interlocking flowers, Bohemian glass decanterwere already a century old. This served to confuse matters which often showed exquisite taste,so badly that it is often a hard task to determine the real As a people, the Bohemians were poor, and slo
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