Orality
Oralite (also known as agate art glass , marble glass , cloud glass or slag glass in English ) is a type of decoration of pressed glass that found greater use in the 1930s, especially for vases and similar objects. For the production of oralite glass, light glass (colorless, smoky, light-tinted), for example uranium glass , or milk glass was usually used, which was provided with partly multi-layered dark-colored inlays in cloudy, streak-like marbling. This random pattern was created by fusing colored threads. Oralit glass was offered in numerous color variants.
Cloud glass was the first to manufacture since 1923 the company "George Davidson & Co." in Gateshead , England. Under the protected brand name “Oralit” it was produced in the 1930s by the German company “Sächsische Glasfabrik August Walther & Söhne AG”, Ottendorf-Okrilla and Radeberg , among others .
literature
- Siegmar Geiselberger: ORALIT agate art glass, Sächsische Glasfabrik August Walther & Söhne AG, Ottendorf-Okrilla u. Radeberg 1932, 1933 a. 1934 “Slag Glass” and “Cloud Glass”. In: Pressed Glass Correspondence. No. 3, April 2001, ZDB -ID 2045560-4 , pp. 31-34, online (PDF; 3.66 MB) .
- Dietrich Mauerhoff: "Oralit" - a special decoration process for pressed glasses. In: Pressed Glass Correspondence. No. 3, April 2001, June 2001, online (PDF; 54.24 kB) .
Web links
- What is Cloud Glass? , The Cloud Glass Reference Site
- Essay by Siegmar Geiselberger (PDF file; 3.66 MB)
- Article by Dietrich Mauerhoff (PDF file; 54 kB)
- Article by Kik van der Linde (PDF file)