Léveillé, Ernst Baptiste (1841 - 1913)

A designer whose achievements in the area of designing and creating glass objects were considerable. He studied under Francois Eugene Rousseau, whose workshop in Paris he purchased in 1885, setting up his own business there. He worked with Alphonse Georges Reyen and Eugene Michel, the latter eventually becoming an independent glass designer. In the early days they executed Rousseau’s designs; later on they designed vases and ornamented objects with cameo and intaglio polishing, using Rousseau’s favourite material, double-layered, so- called ’’crackle”, glass, coloured with metallic oxide, with gold foil decoration between the two layers.