Rose glass
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As Rosalinglas a is the type of glass with a salmon pink color indicated, which was the 20th century to the popular "mode glass" in the first half.
history
In 1865, the French chemist Théophile-Jules Pelouze experimented with the coloring of glass and tested a.o. a. the mineral selenium , which he added to a glassware made with carbonate of soda . As he describes in an essay in 1866, it received a transparent mass, "of a beautiful, reddish orange, which was reminiscent of the color of certain varieties of topaz , hessonite (Kanelstein) and hyacinth (zircon) (5. Orangeroth 3 / 10, 9th tone, Chevreul) ". The results of his experiments turned out to be reproducible , but it was not until 1891 that Franz Welz from Bohemia acquired a German patent for the production of pink and orange glass using selenium. Selenium was also used to discolor the initially yellow-green glass mass. Depending on the composition of the glass mass, it colors red, orange, brown or pink. The terms "selenium glass" and "rosalin glass" are therefore not to be equated.
The new glass color initially appeared under various names such as “salmon”, “matt pink”, “noble pink” or “aurora”. In the 1930s, rosalin glass, which was initially difficult to manufacture due to the stability of the color, was offered by almost all pressed glass manufacturers and increasingly became a fashionable color. As pressed glass , the "glass of the poor people", glasses , carafes , small bowls , bowls, candlesticks , cans and flacons were offered, which were affordable and with the soft pink color and the possibility of imitating the cut crystal glass, created a noble impression could. But it was also made as blown glass.
Rose glass was used in Art Deco as well as in the area of utility glass, especially from the 1950s. Parts of lights, small figures and other works of art made of rose glass are also less common.
Rose glass factory
The glassworks Sophienhütte in Ilmenau , the leading manufacturer of technical glass in the GDR, was renamed “VEB Rosalinglaswerk” after its nationalization from 1972 to 1983.
Rosaling glass today
Rosalin glass items from Art Deco and the 1950s are still today, often under the incorrect designation "antique glass", traded in different price ranges and are popular flea market items. Rosalin glass continues to be produced, e.g. B. in the glass factory of Poschinger .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Théophile-Jules Pelouze: About the coloring of the glass by selenium. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 179, 1866, pp. 381-382.
- ↑ Description at disignqvist
- ↑ Rosalinglas on glass blog
- ↑ Weisswasser Glass Museum
- ↑ Sophienhütte glass factory
- ↑ Custom-made Rosaling glass ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Color sample Poschinger ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
