Antique lamp shades Through Time

Antique lamp shades from the Victorian age (c. 1840-1900) to present have been a major point of novelty for glass engineers like Louis Comfort Tiffany, and many others through time.

Antique lamp shades during the Victorian Era was popular for their adorned lamp shades with hanging ornaments and their floral representation.

Antique lamp shades aren't only made from paper. 

Victorian style lighting extended from oil lamps to flaunting candelabras to early electric lamps.

They can be made from all sorts of materials, like metal, paper, glass, and even stone.

A type of opaque, streaked pressed glass, known as slag glass, was originally produced in the late 19th-century in England.

Of all its uses, slag glass, was used for lamp shades.

The first founders of slag glass was the Gateshead, England, firm of Sowerby.

Because the process of creating slag glass was a well-known mystery at the time, stories were produced to try to explain the creative effects.

Manufacturers like Westmoreland and Akro Agate, in the U.S., learned the production in England and created their own versions of Slag glass.

Of course, like in England, their biggest production of slag glass was of lamp shades.

The great amount of soft colors was able to let the light source within the Antique lamp shades to overspread a room with a blast of greens, reds, and purples carefully put together in ornate shades to result in a great amount of multi-colored brilliance.