Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 369
sections were made throughit, each one would have the same device on its upper and undersurface. It is in fact a Mosaic in o-lass; made bv fusing together 34^ EMPLOYMENT. as many delicate rods of an opaque glass of the color required forthe picture, in the same manner as the woods in… … ANCIENT GLASS VESSELS. birds, and other details, are only to be made out with a lens;which means of magnifying was evidently used in Egypt, whenthis INIosaic glass was manufactured. Indeed, the discovery of alens of crystal by Mr. Layard, at Nimroud, satisfactorily provesits use at an early period…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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