uranium glass little jug glow glass

uranium glass little jug glow glass

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This vintage yellow-green glass jug is known as Vaseline glass or uranium glass, a type of glass manufactured from the 1830s to the 1930s that contains uranium dioxide for color. This little creamer could be an individual piece for the breakfast table, or it might be children's glass miniture. An English made piece of glass, circa 1860s, and is made from flint (leaded) glass.
The creamer handle is attached after the mold work was completed. Because of the style of the gadroons around the top of the creamer, many believe this might be a product of Edward Moore & Co., who made similar designs.
While originally developed in the 1830s, many pieces like this were commonly produced during the Depression era.
The pitcher features a pressed block or waffle pattern on the base with a decorative twisted design on the neck.
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It seems somewhat contradictory to mention the word Antique in a statement which also refers to the Atomic Age. However, the truth is that the manufacture of Uranium Glass finds its origin in the early 19th century and, consequently, early pieces deserve to be classified as 'Antique', being more than a hundred years old.

This decorative and colourful yellowish-green glass was the discovery of Josef Reidel, sometime in the early 19th century, in the period 1830 to 1848, in his factory in Bohemia, who named it after his wife Anna; the yellow/green glass was called Annagruen and the yellow glass, Annagelb. The glowing, fluorescent effect was achieved through the introduction of Uranium into the process before melting the 'metal' in order to create the colours, with the brightness of the glow depending on the Uranium content. Such was the fascination with the product, its' popularity spread throughout Europe in the late 19th century, with even factories such as Baccarat developing it and experimenting with heat-sensitive chemicals in order to create a milky white colour, when the glass item was heated, being referred to as Vaseline Glass.

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