Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 261
ass, and especially the coloured glasses. The design of an Egyptian vase of blue glass,ornamented with white and yellow, is given in Fig.92. In quality of material, in form, in elegance of 240 PRECIOUS STONES. ornamentation and harmony of colouring, this vaseis in no respect inferior to the best… … Fig. 92.—Egyptian Vase of Blue Glass, with white and yellow Ornaments. an artistic point of view, these objects are ofno value, but the delicacy of their details is wellworth notice, especially when we consider that they FALSE PRECIOUS STONES. 241 must have been moulded when the matter was ina soft…
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