University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Philadelphia : The University Museum · leaf 97
JOURNAL melted, but even then the feet and handles of vases were moulded and added by hand. There is now at least considerable variety in the tones of any one colour so that even if a number of vases are made of one and the same colour there is no monotony about them. Sometimes one colour is used… … colour, varying infinitely in changing lights are due to the accident of time which turns the pale blue to turquoise and adds opalescent or fiery glints to the original colour. Some of the most beautiful iridescence is to be seen in Case XI. Much of the glass is in the form of vases, but there are…
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