Old Glass: Manufacture, Styles, Uses |
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
The Art of Glassmaking | 17 |
The Early Development of Glass | 30 |
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4th century 4th century A.D. achieved air-twist appears Aquileia artistic attributed Baccarat baluster baluster period balustroid Beilby bell bowl bottle bowl shapes Bristol centre certainly clear glass collector colour colour-twist common considerable crystallo-ceramie cutting decoration diamond-point domed foot drinking glass Dutch earlier eighteenth century emblems Emile Gallé enamelled England English glass engraving evidence examples faceted stem façon de Venise feature Folded foot frequent furnace Gallé German Glass Sellers glasshouse glassmaking goblet green Henry Benedict Stuart incised twist Jacobite glasses knop known late later less makers Mansell manufacture mercury-twist millefiori moulded pedestal Murano Nailsea Newcastle nineteenth century normally ogee ogee bowl opaque opaque-twist paper-weights perhaps pieces Plain foot Plate popular probably prunts Ravenscroft Roman round funnel Seine-Rhine simple knopping solid base spiral standard stem period Stourbridge style Syrian technique trailing Vase Venetian Venetian glass Venice Verzelini vessel wheel-engraving wineglass workmen