Durand Glass

Durand Glass

Durand Glass 

The iridescent glass production at the vineland glass company, new jersey, is better known as Durand, the name of the enterprising French born glassmaker whose commercial success allowed him to fund his range of art glass.

Durand Glass 

Staffed by former employees of Quezal glass, the art glass workshop at vineland initially produced glass whose forms and declarations closely resembled those of the famous Tiffany’s.

However, the team soon produced its own distinctive range of colours and patterns.

Durand Glass 

Forms were regular and simple.

The basic golden amber iridescence was called Ambergris, but it was the patterns that distinguished the Durand vineland  pieces.

Some vases were decorated with fine random trails of glass threads, a technique known as spiderwebbing other declaration included Peacock feathers and King Tut swirls, following the fashion for all things Egyptian after the 1923 discovery of Tutankhamuns   tomb.

On some pieces the iridescent pattern was allowed to drip down the sides to create random patterns.

Other iridescent ware had cameo or intaglio designs in the surface.

Durand Glass 

In the late 1920s, a range of crackled glass vases was introduced under the exotic names of Moorish crackle and Egyptian crackle.

Durands early cut glass is mostly unmarked.

Later pieces are usually signed Durand, with the lettering sometimes across the letter V.

Prices are pretty solid and the likelihood of finding a cheap piece may imply it could possibly be a fake, or as they say you get what you pay for.

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