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Eglomise

Eglomise is a decorative furniture technique used in case goods, which was popular in the 18th and 19th Centuries. It involves painting or gilding on the back of glass.

This is usually done on a glass panel which was either applied to, or part of a door painted picture showed through the glass. Usually the color applied is either gold or blue.

Verre Eglomise is named after Jean-Baptist Glomy, a French 18th Century frame maker to Louis XVI, who used the technique extensively to embellish framed prints and to decorate mirrors and trumeaux for Marie-Antoinette. Although some of the finest work was carried out in the 18th and 19th centuries, it is much older, with early examples of Eglomise glass decorated bowls from a tomb in Italy, dating from the third century B.C.

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