Painted Glass

Medieval Enameled Glassware caught my attention about two years ago, where I thought: "Hey! I can make something like that!"

Of course I have been making use of a more modern cheat, but the over all look can be fairly impressive

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that while many extant pieces exists, it might not have graced many tables or may have been relegated to special functions and some pieces as service ware. In the more modern context, it can be fairly cheap to mimic as most of these items (minus the cost of the paint) were bought for less than $3-$4 a piece.

What I basically did is take some of my average glassware and painted it up using period examples and images as a sort of guideline.

To find examples, just look up medieval (or any date/century before 1600) enameled glassware.

For the paint, I used Pebeo Porcelaine 150, not to be confused with their line of glass paint which I found to be too translucent to give the proper effect.

This may not be a period practice, but given my budget and time constraints/resources, this was an avenue worth exploring

Here are some samples, also did some gilding on some pieces