Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 200
, that they have received the creditfrom early times of being the inventors of glass. Theoldest dated glass bottle or vase in the world is one fromEgypt, and now in the British Museum. It bears thename of Thothmes III. (B.C. 1600). The body is turquoiseblue with yellow details of decoration and… … and transparent, but always with a slight greenish hue,the coloured and transparent, and the opaque. A great quantity of glass bottles, statuettes, vases, l8o HISTORIC ORNAMENT. plaques, and beads have been found in Cyprus. Thebottles and vases that were prized most highly weredecorated chiefly in…
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