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Title: The industrial arts in Spain
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Riaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo), 1829-1901
Subjects: Decorative arts Pottery
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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worker called Eder, a Swede,and Sivert, a Frenchman. Another section where the samequality of glass was made was directed by Don Segismundo Brun,a native of Hanover, but who had been brought up from a veryearly age at La Granja. It was this artist who invented gildedglass a feu. A large number of foreign artists worked at thismanufacture; they impressed their special style on the objectsthey made, which were similar to those of the same kind manufac-tured in France, England, and Germany. From the time of Ventura Sit, towards the year 1734, themanufactory of glass at La Granja belonged to the crown, and GLASS. 245 continued under the protection of the Spanish kings, who sparedno expense to obtain its development. Early in the presentcentury this industry began to decay. Towards 1828 it passedinto private hands, and continued to work until 1849. The manu-factory is now closed, although there is some talk of reviving thisindustry. The glass objects made at La Granja possess a very marked
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GLASS VESSELS FROM SPAIN, IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. French style, which renders them liable to be mistaken forFrench and German productions of a similar kind. The greaterpart of the objects which were made were of white clear trans-parent glass, richly cut and engraved, or ornamented with gold(see woodcut). The cut glass is generally engraved with inscrip-tions, views, flowers, and devices, and until very lately has beenmade there in a rougher style. Coloured and enamelled glass 246 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. has also been made there, but not to so great an extent. Glassfor window panes and mirrors were ordered for the Royal palaces.Lustres of all kinds of white and coloured glass were also madethere in the Venetian style, richly ornamented with colouredflowers. A small chandelier of this kind is in the South Kensing-ton Museum (No. 998, 73), the only example I have seen of alustre of latticinio glass. In the collection of old Spanish glass atthe Museum will be found a sufficient v

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