Cranberry

In the world of glassware, the term "cranberry" is used to refer to glassware made from "cranberry glass". However, the term is also used to refer to glassware made from cranberry-coloured glass.

According to some historians, the art and technique of making cranberry glass first originated in the late Roman Empire and was, then, lost. It was later "re-discovered" by the 17th century either by Bohemian glassmaker Johann Knuckel or by Italian glassmaker Antonio Neri in Florentine. During the 18th and the 19th centuries, cranberry glass gained prominence, reaching its height during 19th-century Victorian England. Cranberry glass is expensive and difficult to make and, as such, is not produced in large quantities. Basically a red-coloured glass, it is made by adding gold(III) chloride to molten glass. The gold(III) chloride is first made by dissolving gold in a solution of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, wherein it forms colloid which is then added to hand-blown or moulded glass, which in itself is a colloid.

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