German milk glass jug

German milk glass jug

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Kollenburg Antiquairs BV
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Name
German milk glass jug
Measurements
Height: 19 cm
Reference
KOLA100355
Colors
White
Categories
Decorative Arts Tableware Jugs, Carafes & Pitchers
Materials
German milk glass Ash Glass Milk Glass Opal
Styles
Louis XIV
Periods
18th Century ca. 1720 Antique
Origins
Germany
Description

Milk glass first emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and was initially produced in all sorts of colours, including yellow, brown, black, pink and blue, and always with an opaque, milky appearance. Milk glass is still found in some of these colours, especially blue, but white remains the most popular hue. Glassblowers in the 19th century referred to milky white, opaque glass as “opal glass”. This white colour is achieved by adding an opacifying agent, such as tin dioxide or bone ash. 
A comparable Beinglaskanne is kept in the collection of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich (inv. G 1164).

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