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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ritzyvintage, post: 3638872, member: 18191&quot;]&quot;Myra Krystal&quot; was created by Karl Wiedmann and was produced by WMF in Germany from c1926 to c1936/7. The glass has often been wrongly termed as being &quot;poor mans Tiffany&quot; and several examples have had fake Tiffany signatures applied over the years in order to dupe the unwary, as Myra Krystal wasn&#039;t signed, and only carried small paper labels.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is an extremely delicate, brittle &amp; fragile glass with a wafer-thin wall thickness, and pattern-types also tend to be small in size, simple in form &amp; shape, and light in weight. The glass was formulated using silver nitrate (instead of lead) which gives a rich translucent amber colour, however blue examples were also produced. These two basic colours of amber and blue only became evident upon the surface of the glass after the annealing process and the glass had cooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>The iridescent qualities took several days to complete by heating &amp; cooling the glass between applications of silver and metal salts in thin layers which eventually produced a bluish-green golden lustre with a matt finish. Further developments included &#039;blown-out&#039; examples to achieve a crackled surface, and other experiments produced a bright red opaque surface to the glass with accents of greenish &amp; golden iridescence, whilst some examples will display shimmering iridescent hues of purple &amp; pink subject to variations of light.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is close to impossible to capture the multitude of colours of iridescent glass in a photograph. The colours constantly alter &amp; change upon its surface with the slightest of movement, and as each piece is totally unique even matched pairs will display themselves differently...</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]307966[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]307967[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]307968[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]307969[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Shown above (to provide a sense of size &amp; scale) with a</p> <p style="text-align: center">large 10&quot; diameter &#039;rose-quartz&#039; iridescent glass vase by J. Ditchfield, England. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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