Project Q.For a printing technique called "Cream Laid" prints, how did they do it in the 1500's?

Question

This is for researching print making process any help is appriciated! I can't find a definition for this only images.

More than anything, has ANYONE, heard or seen a muliti-process of applying a print to glass, without glue, from a etching, burr, mezzonite, intagllio, etc., process from the early 1800th Century? What do you call it? A web-site that can help?

Otherwise, I can only surmise I have an enigma, freak, unknown experimental print on my hands that belongs in a Museum. This I will donate.

Answer 1

Your question and your detail have two different dates. It is a bit unclear whether you are discussing using glass as a lithograph type stone to apply images to paper or applying images to glass.
Images on glass are normally done with glass based enamels which are fired at a temperature below the sag point of the glass, usually at about 1100F. The images may be printed with enamel inks onto decal stock which is destroyed in the firing, just like ceramic decoration, or if the glass is the right shape, applied from a mat or screen. Many of the more colorful enamel decorated glass items were hand painted, again like ceramics, and fired.
Cream laid normally refers to the type of paper used. It might apply to an image laid down on wet paper which was transfered to the glass when the paper conformed to the shape of the glass.
For anything to do with glass, query the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass, www.cmog.org, they are very helpful.