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The bowl presented in this video is made using mezza-stampatura. It is gilded and enameled, and it has a folded edge.
Enamels consist of intensely colored glass (or colorless glass that has been mixed with a metallic oxide) that has been finely ground and mixed with a liquid medium to facilitate painting. After its application to a cooled object, the decoration is fired at a high temperature for permanence. Gold is usually applied in the form of leaf or slightly thicker foil; the gold and enamels are fired together.
This goblet is made using mezza-stampaura, also known as mezza-forma (Italian, “half mold”). With this technique, vertical ribs are made on the lower part of a blown object by inflating the bottom half of the parison into a dip mold. The goblet shown in this video is decorated with gilding and enameling.
The blank for this tazza is made using mezza-stampatura. The object is then decorated with gilding and enameling.
Enamels consist of intensely colored glass (or colorless glass that has been mixed with a metallic oxide) that has been finely ground and mixed with a liquid medium to facilitate painting. After its application to a cooled object, the decoration is fired at a high temperature for permanence. Gold is usually applied in the form of leaf or slightly thicker foil; the gold and enamels are fired together.
This vessel is made using faux reticello, which produces an appearance similar to traditional reticello without the bubble at the intersection of the canes.
A goblet is spun out to form a bowl with a final shape like a handkerchief floating downward after being tossed in the air.
In addition to its stem with many constrictions, this wineglass features wings, pincered bits, and a merese.
This footed bowl is made with many techniques: filigrana, edge wraps, a merese, canes oriented in two directions, and nipt-diamond-waies.
A pineapple dip mold is used to create the pattern on the body of this footed goblet.
In this video, frit is added to a bubble and manipulated with pincers.
The Chavagnes gladiators cup, made in the mid-first century A.D., was found in eastern France, and it is now part of the Corning collection. It shows pairs of gladiators in combat, and some of their names are known from literary and epigraphic sources. This sports cup, blown in a mold with two vertical sections, would presumably have been modestly priced and intended for the mass market. This video shows mold blowing, the addition of handles, and cracking off.
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