Handblown Glass Christmas Tree Decoration

Product Description

This Handblown Glass Christmas Tree from Phil Gilson will add artful charm to your décor this winter season! The glass tree features a recessed bottom, allowing it to fit over a battery-powered tealight candle (not included) to add a soft glow inside the tree. The glass colors are blue-grey and white swirled together, resembling blue spruce trees covered in snow. We love it on the mantel, hallway table, or as an accent on a bookshelf or side table.

Please note: Each tree is hand-made by Phil and may vary slightly in size and appearance from the pictures shown on our website.

Features

• Handblown solid glass Christmas tree decoration
• Colors of blue-grey and white
• Made by master glass artist Phil Gilson
• Use alone or place over a battery-powered tealight candle (not included)
• Measures approximately 5"H x 4" Diameter
• Made in USA

About the Artist

Phil Gilson might be the last colonial American-style glassblower working full-time in the traditions developed in the 18th Century. A cousin of the Wistars, owners of America's first successful glass operation, Gilson's craft has been a passion and a family legacy since the 1730s.

Gilson focuses most of his work on producing and perpetuating designs for historic homes, museums, schools, and the living history and re-enacting community. He makes many pieces using original molds and hand tools handed down for generations. Gilson is the last of two known master chippers in the country. Chipping is the trade of carving directly into cast-iron glass molds to re-create embossed bottles and flasks of the past. The custom carvings enable Gilson to produce modern commemorative interpretations by placing interchangeable inserts in antique molds. His work also includes custom free-blown, pressed glass, and dip-molded pieces. All of his work is well-documented and made in historical bottle-glass colors.

Early American Life magazine's esteemed directory of Traditional American Crafts includes Phil Gilson as a member.