Hand Painted Czech vintage gold gilt blue frost glass bangle

Vintage Czech handmade and hand painted frost glass bangle with hand gold gilt and blue detail.
Great as a small bangle, for any jewelry project, christmas ornament, home decor or napkin ring.
      
Size: 60mm or 2.35" internal diameter approx. 20mm or 12/16" wide
Material: Glass
Condition: Very good
Quantity: 1

The Gablonzers (glass makers from the Gablonz region of Czechoslovakia) had already long established trade links with the Indians but between 1870 and 1880 they became aware that Indians used glass bangles exclusively for ornament. The early bangles were elaborately decorated, cut and enamelled but they soon realised the market did not require such sophisticated bangles. Production soon split into the making of "common bangles" which required no cutting and bangles with far more elaborate designs. Lampwork bangles, made from highly patterned canes, were first created around 1908. The making of these simplified after the first world war and the heated cane was simply wound around a metallic core and the ends later joined together by cottage workers.  Sybille Jargstorf describes the Czech bangle industry in the book - Heritage of Bohemia on page 126. These were found in their original packaging, marked Bernstein