Glass Color

Renaissance

Never completely colorless; slight to moderate intensities of gray, amber, pink, etc.

Nine vessels showing color variation of earlier glass — FIG. 50

A selection of Venetian objects of about 1500–1700 in the collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, showing a variety of tints of cristallo (left to right, top to bottom): 79.3.185, 60.3.88, 51.3.117, 2009.3.88, 62.3.57, 71.3.1, 86.3.106, 54.3.15, and 56.3.57.

19th Century

Sometimes nearly colorless; often somewhat intensely and uniformly colored gray, amber, smoke, etc.

a selection of vessels showing glass color of later objects — FIG. 51

A selection of Venetian objects of about 1860 or later in the collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, showing a colorless glass and a variety of colored glasses used in stile antico objects (left to right, top to bottom): 58.3.179, 79.3.273, 54.3.246, and 59.3.24.