{"id":289,"date":"2013-06-17T03:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T10:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestmetrics.net\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-12-05T03:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:57:10","slug":"alexandrite-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forestmetrics.net\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Neodymium “Alexandrite” Glass Rose Bowl Color Changing Vase, Blue and Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VISIT US!<\/a><\/strong> Beautiful piece of alexandrite glass. Appears to be a piece of contemporary crystal glassware. Lavender purple in incandescent light; light blue in fluorescent light. Approximate dimensions: 6″ (max diameter) x 5 1\/2″ (h). c. contemporary. Unknown origin.<\/p>\n

“The first commercial use of purified neodymium was in glass coloration, starting with experiments by Leo Moser in November 1927. The resulting “Alexandrite” glass remains a signature color of the Moser glassworks to this day. Neodymium glass was widely emulated in the early 1930s by American glasshouses, most notably Heisey, Fostoria (“wisteria”), Cambridge (“heatherbloom”), and Steuben (“wisteria”), and elsewhere (e.g. Lalique, in France, or Murano). Tiffin’s “twilight” remained in production from about 1950 to 1980. Current sources include glassmakers in the Czech Republic, the United States, and China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n