George Bacchus & Sons, originally called Bacchus & Green was a 19th century manufacturer of fine glassware

Glassware

This list of glassware includes drinking vessels , tableware, such as dishes, and flatware used to set a table for eating a meal, general glass items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry whether made of glass or plastics such as polystyrene and...

 located in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

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In the 1830s Bacchus produced pressed glass

Pressed glass

Pressed glass is a form of glass made using a plunger to press molten glass into a mold. It was first patented by American inventor John P. Bakewell in 1825 to make knobs for furniture....

 by using a plunger to force molten glass into a cast-iron mold

Molding (process)

Molding or moulding is the process of manufacturing by shaping pliable raw material using a rigid frame or model called a pattern....

. In the 1850s, they began making cased glass, which has thin layers of different colors which can be cut away to produce cameo glass

Cameo Glass

Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored background...

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Bacchus also produced cut glass items including Venetian-style paperweights and tableware.

External links

• Two example pieces at the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery