IRIS VINTAGE GLASSWARE DECANTER AND SIX GLASSES
Still boxed barely used set of IRIS Glassware Decanter and six glasses Gold banding to top half and sort of bobbly frosting in what we know as vintage colours on bottom half. Individual colour coded glasses to avoid mixing up your drink with someone else's! By the style looks to be from the s I have kindly been given some info............... Sometimes called 'Sugar glass', the distinctive texture was created using a technique of glass enamels called 'Crinkles' which was patented by the Johnson Matthey company in . It was probably also used by Kristalunie Maastricht to produce the Oranje-appel vaas by W.J.Rozendaal in the same year. After the war it was sold to glass factories under license in various countries, including Chance Glass (UK). After the war, (and Kristalunie's decision to abandon the product), de Rupel produced these colourful textured glasses in large quantities. They are an iconic element of 's table glass. The individual layers for crinkles and gilding were applied by hand, and although most Boom glasses seem to have four glided bands at the top. The glasses were made in a wide range of colours, which were probably selected 'to order' according to the wishes of wholesale buyers. Design and colour choices were to some extent also left to the individual decorators. In the USA the crinkle technique was copyrighted by Matthey but glass factories in Belgium, Tschechoslovakia, and the UK (et al) had little problem in discovering or re-inventing the secrets. The feeling of the texture can be controlled. either 'gritty and sandpapery' like the typical Chance products' or smoothly pitted like an orange peel. Read More