Glossary Casa Viola
Slush:
Slip decoration is an addition of clay reliefs to pottery.
Pottery and ceramics modeled in this way, often tableware in the shape of fruits or vegetables, are called “barbotine”.
La Rochère lamp:
The La Rochère glassworks, created in 1475, is located in Burgundy Franche-Comté, France. It is known for its objects of art blown by artisan glass blowers.
La Rochère lamps are iconic objects of glassware, mouth-blown for centuries. We find several shapes and several colors of these "mushroom" lamps, however they are rare. These are therefore exceptional lamps, even true collector's items and national treasures.
Opaline:
Opaline, or milk glass in English, is a type of glass first created in Venice in the 16th century to compete with porcelain. A vitreous substance, it can be identified by its milky color, which flirts between opacity and transparency.
Opalines are known for their delicacies and beauties in color and design.
Clichy vases:
In the 19th century, the most fashionable glassworks and crystal factories were those around Paris. These colorful vases dating from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century are called “ Vases de Clichy ”.
But wrongly, because these vases do not come from the Clichy crystal factory but from the collections of the glassmaker Legras.
François Théodore Legras is a 19th century French master glassmaker. Artist of the Art Nouveau genre, he became the director of the glassworks/crystalworks of Saint-Denis, as well as of his own glassworks Legras et Cie. He is one of the four master glassmakers at the founding of Art Nouveau with Gallé, Daum and Lalique.
La Rochère vases:
The La Rochère glassworks, created in 1475, is located in Burgundy Franche-Comté, France. It is known for its objects of art blown by artisan glass blowers.
The Volubilis vases , in the shape of the flower of the same name, are the most famous of the manufacture. We find them in different sizes and colors.
We specify when the vases are signed “ La Rochère ”. Some vases were reproduced by other competing glassworks of the time, but still remain exceptional objects.