JAZZ GLASS

Similar in construction to frost upon a winter window, and known, probably as a firing fault, in ancient China, this glaze style was accidentally re discovered during the eighteenth century in the great European factories of Sevre and Meissen. This glaze also appealed to the studio potters of the Art Nouveau period and was progressed in nineteenth century America by Taxile Doat and Adelaide Robineau. The industrial kiln masters of the day soon discovered that the whole process was so technically challenging to mass production that they ceased to develop the method, and little or no crystal glazed work was produced between 1919 and the 1960's. Latterly little industrial production has been attempted, and only a few modern studio potters have chosen to take up the challenge... A heavily fritted Glaze, containing large amounts of the crystal forming elements - Zinc Titanium or Rutile, plus colouring oxides is applied to the piece by brushing or spraying, and the work glued to a saucer..

Primary location: United Kingdom