Hurdal work (1755-1896)

Text Randi Gaustad

 

There was plenty of wood in Hurdal, and in 1755 a cottage was established for the production of window glass (crown glass).

When the Nøstetangen glass works had to be closed down due to a shortage of wood, the production of wine glasses and other clear glass was moved to Hurdal.

There is no illustrated catalog of glass from Hurdal, but a list of the products from 1783 states that no less than 30 of Nøstetangen's drinking glass models were made in Hurdal. The ambitions in Hurdal were more in the direction of producing simple wine glasses rather than the magnificent objects that had been important at Nøstetangen.

Gradually, classicism also made its presence felt in the models. It involved a gradual transition from vividly profiled and turned shapes to simpler glass with a lower stem. Champagne glasses were a novelty in Hurdal, as well as potpourri jars in blue, white or violet glass mass.

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In 1808, the production of drinking glasses was transferred to Gjøvik Glassworks. In Hurdal, window glass and some apothecary glass continued to be produced until 1896.