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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 105

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he fragment of tile-like pavement on page 6] is puttogether in pieces of glass, some of which are inlaid withpattern, not built up of rectangular rods as above described,but worked in the molten stat*^ of the glass, more after thefashion of particoloured sugarsticks. The patera; and otherpatterns… … 59. VENETIAN CUP CUT OUT OF A CONGLOMERATE OF BLUEAND WHITE GLASS. into a solid lump, and the cup carved out of it as if it hadbeen agate or some other precious stone. It is, in fact, thecombined work of glass worker and lapidary. A much ruder but somewhat similar effect was moresimply got in…

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