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Marvels of glass-making in all ages (1869)

Sauzay, A. (Alexandre), 1804-1870 · London, S. Low, son, and Marston · leaf 144

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1 20 MAR VEL S OF GLA SS-MA KING, kind, and this was the more difficult as the problem was to unite two very distinct qualities of Venetian glass, namely, ornament and use. In spite of unheard-of difficulties which will always be found when we endeavour to unite these two diametrically … Fig. 28. — GLASSES (Crystal Works of Clicliy). opposite aims, it is however impossible to deny that the problem has been solved in modern times ; for not satisfied with having substituted clear and light crystal glass for the yellowish glass, filled with streaks and bubbles, of the ancients, the…

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