Mason, George C. (George Champlin), 1820-1894 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 394
258 ART-MANUFACTURES. and ewers, and filagree ornaments of the sixteenth century, were in no wise inferior as regards either form or decoration to the finest productions of antiquity, and all Europe became their tribu- tary during two hundred years. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the… … domestic utensils in common glass. The manufacture of glass ware with ornaments in filagree or in colored threads, is no longer a secret, and now that collectors have drawn attention to its merits, imitations have been attempt- ed by many manufacturers, who, without having yet attained to the…
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