english cameo glass in the corning museum of glass

FIG. 32. Nymph in a Crescent Moon or Luna, attributed to Ludwig Kny.
Jules Barbe was a French gilder and enameler.
He exhibited his work at the Paris exposition
of 1878, and a year later he went to Stourbridge.
Barbe was employed at the Dennis Glass Works,
where he introduced the "raised" gilded decoration
shown opposite. This consisted of a paste
made of gold, mercury, and other ingredients. It
was painted on the glass and fired in a muffle
furnace fueled with oak wood. After annealing,
the gilding was burnished with spun glass brushes.
Barbe worked for Webb's until 1901, when
he became a free-lance decorator. F. Kretsch-
FIG. 31. Gourd vase, 1888.
man, who engraved the gourd vase, is known to
have lived in the Stourbridge area from 1886 to
1892.
Frederick Engelbert Kny was one of several
Bohemian glassworkers employed at the Dennis
Glass Works (William Fritsche was another). Kny
came to Amblecote in 1860, and, like Fritsche, he
became a skilled engraver of colorless glasses decorated
in the high-relief "Rock Crystal" style.
Among the best known of his works was the
Elgin Jug (1873), a claret jug decorated with
friezes of horsemen copied from Flaxman's illustrations
for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The
Elgin Jug—not to be confused with John Northwood's
Elgin Vase (see page 17)—was exhibited
at the Paris exhibition of 1878.