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Image number: RS.10728
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Glassworkers pressing glass
Date
1849
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Library reference
22201
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (painting): 90mm
width (painting): 100mm
width (painting): 100mm
Subject
Description
Scene showing two glassworkers engaged in the manufacturing of pressed glass, probably at the Apsley Pellatt & Company’s Falcon Glassworks at Holland Street, Blackfriars, London.
Figure from page 121 of the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849).
Inscribed below: “Pressing Glass.” The author described the process within the accompanying text: “Pressing is a mechanical operation, unknown to the ancients or the Venetians...a die being prepared, secured by a ring and handle, A, metal is gathered and dropped into it, B, and the matrix, or plunger, C, operated upon by the lever, &c. D, presses the metal into the required form of the article.”
Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Royal Society in 1851. He was a British glassware manufacturer in the family company of Pellatt and Green, later renamed Apsley Pellatt & Co. He was MP for Southwark.
Figure from page 121 of the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849).
Inscribed below: “Pressing Glass.” The author described the process within the accompanying text: “Pressing is a mechanical operation, unknown to the ancients or the Venetians...a die being prepared, secured by a ring and handle, A, metal is gathered and dropped into it, B, and the matrix, or plunger, C, operated upon by the lever, &c. D, presses the metal into the required form of the article.”
Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Royal Society in 1851. He was a British glassware manufacturer in the family company of Pellatt and Green, later renamed Apsley Pellatt & Co. He was MP for Southwark.
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