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bjbj The Morgan vase has that name because it's named after a Chinese ceramic vase, which
was sold at auction by a woman named Mary Morgan in 1886. The vase went for a tremendously
high price at the time - I believe it made $18,000 at the auction - and that hit headlines
all over the United States, the kind of headlines that said, "Crazy Buyer Buys Chinese Vase
for Record Price." But immediately copies were made, some in ceramics, but a lot of
them in glass, and this is one of the first copies. It was made by Hobbs, Brockunier and
Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, and was extremely popular. It set off a fad for bi-colored
glass, as this piece is. You can see it: yellow shading to red, it's opaque because it's lined
with white glass. So, it's blown in white glass, covered with a transparent gold ruby,
and then reheated. And the re-heating made the upper part of the glass (the part that
was reheated) strike , as the glassmakers say, and turn a deep red; so you get a very
beautiful color effect. In fact, this color effect had been known for quite a long time,
but it was generally considered to be a mistake. And it was only in the 1880's that owners
of glass factories realized that they could turn that into an advantage and make a bi-colored
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