Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 395
Fig. 300.—Venetian Enamelled Glass ; Fifteenth Century. (S. K. M.) clear variety is remarkable for elegance of shape andfantastic designs of handles or wings, consisting of twistedand knotted interlacings, which were generally executed 376 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. in blue or red colours and attached to… … is supposed to be produced from arsenic. The opaquewhite glass is made by the addition of oxide of tin to theusual ingredients. Glass was made by the Venetians to imitate precious GLASS. 377 stones, were streaked, splashed, or spotted with variouscolours, gold, and copper; the aventurine spotted…
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