Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 388
vitro di trina of the Venetians (Fig. 302). In the arts of glass cameo and intaglio engraving. GLASS. 369 and in the imitation of gems, the Romans were exceed-ingly skilful. The cameo engraved glass was produced by placing alayer of white opaque glass on a ground of transparentblue, the design… … Fig. 297.—Ancient Roman Glass Bottle. (S. K. M.) was produced according to the thicknesses of the cameoleft by the engraver. The celebrated Barberini or Portland Vase, in theBritish Museum, is made in a blue and white cameo. Thissplendid work of art was discovered in a marble sarco-phagus near…
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