Vase; France, c. 1900.

Vase; France, c. 1900.
Carved cameo glass.
Presents reintegration in the handle and slight loss.
Measurements: 13.5 x 8 x 8 cm.
Actually, the cameo glass is known since ancient times, although it was taken up in the late nineteenth century in France and England. Gallé was the one who presented his technique of acid cameo at the Paris Exhibition of 1889, with the aim of bringing the modernist glass to the public. It was a form of decoration faster and cheaper than the cameo engraved wheel, so the result was more affordable pieces, mass-produced, but handmade, since no templates were used, but the motif was drawn by hand on each piece. The cameo glass technique consists of blowing a bubble of two or more layers of glass of different colors, which are then carved or removed by acid re-melting the bottom, thus leaving the motif in relief, in the color of the top layer of glass.