Improvements in Pictures, Paintings, or Decorative Plaques Formed Largely of Glass.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pictures, Paintings, or Decorative Plaques
Formed Largely of Glass.
.I, GEORGE Ross GRANT, of Windle, in the County of Lancaster, Registrar, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the combination of photography or painting with
glass so as to form a very good decorative effect in a very cheap manner, the article
produced resembling a photograph or painting in china or opal glass under the glaze
or otherwise with, in the case of photographs, a ricliness of detail unattainable in a
real photographic ceramic transfer. For this purpose I employ flashed opal, pot opal,
or plain glass.
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carry out my invention in the following manner: I take a piece of Flashed Opal
Glass of any size or shape or colour, on the flashed side of which, I decorate with
Ceramic colours, designs of any class, reserving one part of the surface as the base for
a Photograph, Oil painting, Water colour painting, Prints of any class, Photographic
Transparencies or Transfers.
I then by means of a suitable acid remove the Flash of Opal at the part having to
support the picture which part represents clear glass through which the Photograph,
painting, print, Transparency or Transfer can be seen, and which is placed in thorough
contact. Or by suitable cutting wheels I remove the Flash of Opal at the required
part, and afterwards polish the surface to the required transparency. I also bend the
sheet of Flash Opal to any required shape, which sheet has previously received a
design in ceramic colours which are vitrified at the time of bending. The removal of
the Flashed Opal when required may be done before or after bending. The foregoing
applies to vases and other vessels of Flashed Opal.
I also take a sheet of Pot Opal of any size or shape, and place on it on one or both
sides a design in ceramic colours, leaving a part of the surface on one or both sides
plain or coloured in suitable tints so that when a transparent photograph or other film
is placed in close contact with it, the effect seen resembles a coloured picture, and
where the part is left of a plain opal ground they form a plaque on which designs of
any sort may be mounted or painted thereon.
I also for the purpose aforesaid described, employ plain glass which I design and
decorate and bend and vitrify to give results equal to Flashed Opal and with great
variety.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pictures, Paintings, or Decorative Plaques
Formed Largely of Glass.
I; GEORGE ROSS GRANT, of Windle, in the County of Lancaster, Registrar, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:-
This invention has for its object the combination of photography or painting or
transfers of any class with glass, so as to form a good decorative effect in a cheap
manner, the article produced resembling a photograph in china or opal glass under the
glaze or otherwise, with, in the case of photographs, a richness of detail unattainable

page_text: in a real photographic ceramic production. For this purpose
pot opal, or plain glass sheet or plate.
1 carry out my invention in the following manner :-
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I take a sheet of opal flashed glass of any size, shape or colour, on the flashed side
or both of which I decorate with ceramic colour or colours, or otherwise, designs of 5
any class, reserving part or parts of the surface as the base or support for photo-
graphs, oil paintings, water colour paintings, prints of any class, photographic trans-
1 then by means of a suitable acid remove the opal flash at
parencies or transfers.
the part or parts having to support the picture or subject. Such part or parts
represent clear glass, through which the photograph, painting, transparency or transfer
Or in place of using acid,
is seen when placed in thorough contact.
flash of opal or tint at the required part or parts by suitable cutting wheels or
apparatus and afterwards polish to the required transparency. I also, when desired,
bend the sheet of flashed opal to any required shape vi rifying the ceramic colours at
the time of treatment in the kiln. The removal of the opal flash may, however, be
effected before or after bending as most convenient. The foregoing applies to vases
and other vessels of flashed opal, also solid glass plain or flashed.
remove the
I also take a sheet of pot opal of any size or shape and place on it on one or both
sides a design in ceramic colours which are vitrified during bending, or otherwise in
the kiln without bending, leaving part or parts of one or both sides a design in ceramic
colours or otherwise plain or in suitable tints, so that when a transparent photograph
or other transparency is placed in close contact, the effect seen resembles a coloured
or tinted picture, and where the part or parts are left of a plain opal ground they form
a plaque on which designs of any kind may be placed, or pictures of any kind or class
mounted thereon.
I also, for the purpose aforesaid described, employ plain glass, sheet or plate, which
1 design or coat with ceramic enamels on the flat, or bend as required and vitrify to
give results equal to flashed opal and with great variety as regards colour or tint or
design in colour or frosting or embossing with acid or without.
I also employ, when required, gold or silver, or both applied mechanically, or by
hand, or by vitrification, or by chemical deposit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
The improvement in pictures, paintings or decorative plaques formed largely o
glass, which consists in forming a ground work of flashed opal, pot opal or othe
Hashed glass, or plain glass of any tint or colour, having its margin or exterior par
painted or ornamented with ceramic colours, vitrifying the same (bending, if desired
at the same time to any required shape) and leaving or forming a field in the centr
of clear transparent glass for the reception of one or more photographs, prints, pain
ings, transparencies or other transfers, substantially as described.
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co..
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.