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<p>[QUOTE="ascot, post: 389343, member: 96"]Update: I'm sending it off to be repaired, will probably have to be cut down about 1/4". </p><p>If you noticed the "specks" in the glass in the pictures, it's apparently because the technique is Pate de Riz, which was some sort of powdered glass sprayed into a mold. The technique was invented by the Czechs, I think, and then adopted by the French, particularly Baccarat. My book (Baccarat by Jean-Louis Curtis) calls the glass "pate de riz agate in bleu celeste", shown at the Exposition Nationale in 1849. Most of these examples date 1849-1850.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ascot, post: 389343, member: 96"]Update: I'm sending it off to be repaired, will probably have to be cut down about 1/4". If you noticed the "specks" in the glass in the pictures, it's apparently because the technique is Pate de Riz, which was some sort of powdered glass sprayed into a mold. The technique was invented by the Czechs, I think, and then adopted by the French, particularly Baccarat. My book (Baccarat by Jean-Louis Curtis) calls the glass "pate de riz agate in bleu celeste", shown at the Exposition Nationale in 1849. Most of these examples date 1849-1850.[/QUOTE]
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