Gorgeous heavy lead crystal wheel cut modern sweeping design vase by Waterford, the finest crystal in the world.  

A wonderful addition to any collection, or tastefully decorated home or office.

Age:                 Recent Years
Size:                 6" x 10"
Acid Etched:   "Marquis by Waterford"
Condition:       Perfect

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Terms
Return may be requested for any reason and is required within 24 hours of item receipt.
Upon approval, return shipping is required within 3 days
Return refund is minus total S&H and 20% restocking fee, minimum $5

About Waterford Crystal

In 1783, brothers George and William Penrose founded the Penrose Glass House in the busy port of Waterford, Ireland, and began to make crystal "as fine a quality as any in Europe ... in the most elegant style." The Penrose's knew the secret of mingling minerals and glass to create crystal with beauty and mystery. When tapped, it sang sweetly. When touched, it felt warm and soft. Yet it possessed strength and durability and, most wonderful of all, the crystal shone with a romantic, silvery brilliance. Patience, skill, and artistry had forged a triumph. The magnificent pieces created in Penrose's early period set the standards now recognised as the hallmarks of Penrose Crystal: incomparable purity of colour and distinctive, deep-cut patterns that reflect light into brilliant, dancing prisms.

The raw material of mainly silica sand, lead oxide and potassium carbonate are melted in one of three single pot furnaces. Each pot contains approximately 600 kilograms of batch (mixture) and is melted overnight to be ready to work each morning. The painstaking process then begins.

Blowers remove a ball of molten glass on the end of a blowing pipe, which is then worked into the desired shape. (The team of blowers will use up all the contents of the pot in one working day. It will be filled again ready for the next day).

The piece of crystal then goes through an Annealing Oven which cools it to room temperature in three hours. Designs are then cut on to the blank piece by cutter using diamond tipped wheels. A unique method of fine finish chemical polishing is the final step in this long process. This step, like all others is executed by hand. A time consuming procedure, to be sure, but one that preserves the integrity of the cuts, so that light falling on sharply defined angles, is perfectly refracted into a myriad of colours portraying a diamond like brilliance.

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