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Opalescence -- named after the opals. -- is seen in systems with less opacity
making it seem yellowish-red in transmitted light and dark in the distributed
light. Opalescent glass is a generalized condition for clear-cut and semi-opaque
pressed glass, cloudy, marbled, and sometimes accented with delicate coloring
all combining to organize
an opaque opalescence in the glass. The opalescent
consequence is a technique used by many manufacturers in the cooling procedure
which creates the opaque opalescent consequence which illuminates any colour
when soft shines on it. René Lalique has beeen recognized as the peak of
opalescent glassmaking. John LaFarge and Louis Comfort Tiffany were two American
artists who first experimented with opalescent effects, Opalescent glass was
first developed and patented by John Lafarge in 1879, but it was Tiffany who
created the masterworks in glass for which he is yet then easily known today.
Tiffany created completely original colors in glass, original types of
glass unparalleled in depth and coloration, and used glass in new forms that
evoked the forms of nature.
Today, few glassmakers still make opalescent glass primarily due to the toxicity
of the chemicals needed to
execute the complex glassmaking process.
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