Title: Unique Sculptural Decorative Art Glass Hand Made Toy Marble
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Unassigned
History: N/A
Origin: North America > United States
Condition: Excellent
Item Date: N/A
Item ID: 928
This is a real treat for me to offer you this unique glass piece. We can also create custom marbles for you, by various artists, shipped and delivered to you in just two to three weeks. Email us. These kind of pieces are sought after by many collectors. Prior to the early 1960s, the term "glass art" referred to glass made for decorative use, usually by teams of factory workers, taking glass from furnaces with a thousand or more pounds of glass. The best known, grew out of the factory system in which all glass objects were hand or mold blown by teams of 4 or more men. The turn of the 19th Century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass. The glass objects created are intended to make a sculptural or decorative statement. On the market, their prices may range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_%28toy%29
A marble is a small spherical toy usually made from glass, clay, or agate. These balls vary in size. Most commonly, they are about � inch (1.25 cm) across, but they may range from less than � inch (0.635 cm) to over 3 inches (7.75 cm), while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 12 inches (30 cm) wide. Marbles can be used for a class of children's games, and are often collected, both for nostalgia and for their aesthetic colors. Marbles are often mentioned in Roman literature, and there are many examples of marbles from ancient Egypt. They were commonly made of clay, stone or glass. Ceramic marbles entered inexpensive mass production in the 1870s.
