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Art Nouveau glass
Art Nouveau glass is art glass produced in the Art Nouveau style of roughly 1890 to 1914, with its leading center in Nancy, France, under Émile Gallé.
Byzantine cloisonné enamel
Byzantine cloisonné enamel is the technique of decorating gold objects with colored glass fused into wire cells, perfected by Byzantine workshops from the 6th to the 12th century.
Dominick Labino
Dominick Labino (1910–1987) was an American glass research scientist and artist who, with Harvey Littleton, helped launch the American studio glass movement at the 1962 Toledo workshops.
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (1846–1904) was a French glassmaker, ceramist, and furniture designer based in Nancy, a leading initiator of Art Nouveau who founded the École de Nancy.
Gallé glass
Gallé glass is the Art Nouveau art glass of French designer Émile Gallé (1846–1904) of Nancy, made in layered cameo-cut glass decorated with botanical and insect subjects.
Gemma Augustea
The Gemma Augustea is a large Roman cameo cut from two-layered sardonyx, made around 9–12 AD, glorifying Emperor Augustus and Tiberius, and held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Imperial Glass Factory
The Imperial Glass Company, later the Imperial Glass Corporation, was an American handmade glass manufacturer in Bellaire, Ohio, from 1901 to 1984, best known for its Candlewick and Cape Cod patterns.
June Schwarcz
June Schwarcz (1918–2015) was an American enamelist in Sausalito, California, who made over 2,500 works, building sculptural copper foil vessels hardened in an electroplating tank.
Karl Drerup
Karl Drerup (1904–2000) was a German-American painter and enamelist, a leader of the mid-century American enameling revival known for Limoges-style painted enamels of landscapes and working people.
Klaus Moje
Klaus Moje (1936–2016) was a German-born glass artist, founding head of the Glass Workshop at the Canberra School of Art and a pioneer of kiln-formed mosaic glass.
Limoges enamel
Limoges enamel is enamel on metal, mostly gilded copper, made in Limoges, France, from the late twelfth century; its champlevé and painted plaques spread across Europe.
Lycurgus Cup
The Lycurgus Cup is a fourth-century Roman glass cage cup, held by the British Museum, that appears jade-green in reflected light and ruby-red when light shines through it.
Mamluk enamelled glass
Mamluk enamelled glass is luxury glassware decorated with enamel paints and gold, made in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk sultanate, best known for mosque lamps of the fourteenth century.
Namikawa Yasuyuki
Namikawa Yasuyuki (並河靖之, 1845–1927) was a Japanese cloisonné artist in Kyoto known for fine gold and silver wirework on translucent black enamel, appointed an Imperial Craftsman in 1896.
Peking glass
Peking glass is the glass produced by the imperial glasshouse founded in 1696 in the Qing court's Imperial Workshops in Beijing, and later Chinese glassware made in its style.
Royal Gold Cup
The Royal Gold Cup, also called the Saint Agnes Cup, is a solid gold hanap enameled with scenes from the life of Saint Agnes, made in France in the late 14th century.
Tiffany glass
Tiffany glass is decorative glass made by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios from the late 1870s into the 1920s, known for iridescent windows and lamps.