About Uranium Vaseline Glass
Uranium "Vaseline" glass is a 19th-century curiosity: pale custard-yellow by daylight, it fluoresces a brilliant electric green under ultraviolet light because of trace uranium oxide in the batch. This design system stages that phenomenon — luminous prismatic facets blooming out of a darkened cabinet near-black.
Rendered as a collector's catalogue, refined Victorian serifs caption each glowing specimen while the uranium green radiates from shadow. The mood is quiet, dark, and faintly radioactive — a Wunderkammer drawer opened under blacklight.
- Origin
- Western Europe (Bohemia, England)
- Era
- Pre-1900 (19th-century Victorian/Edwardian glassmaking; collecting revival ~1990s–present)
- Key figures
- Franz Xaver Riedel · Bohemian pressed-glass makers · English pressed-glass houses
- Movements
- Depression / pressed glassware · Victorian decorative arts · Uranium-glass collecting
Uranium Vaseline Glass design spec
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