Ring mottle glass
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Ring mottle glass refers to sheet glass with a pronounced mottle created by localized, heat-treated opacification and crystal-growth dynamics. Ring mottle glass was invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the early 20th century. Tiffany's distinctive style exploited glass containing a variety of motifs such as those found in ring mottle glass, and he relied minimally on painted details.
When Tiffany Studio closed in 1928, the secret formula for making ring mottle glass was forgotten and lost.
Ring mottle glass was "re-invented" in the late sixties by Eric Lovell of Uroboros Glass.
Traditionally used for organic details on leaves and other natural elements, ring mottles also find a place in contemporary work when abstract patterns are desired.
[edit] See also
- Architectural glass
- Beveled glass
- Cathedral glass
- Drapery glass
- Fracture glass
- Fracture-streamer glass
- Lead came and copper foil glasswork
- Rippled glass
- Stained glass
- Streamer glass
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