Sauzay, A. (Alexandre), 1804-1870 · London, S. Low, son, and Marston · leaf 171
FROSTED GLASS. 147 This frosted glass, so original in its appearance, was long and rightly used merely in white glass, which colour imitates natural ice better than any other. But ignorant, or perhaps forgetful that this glass representing ice was only an indication, a label, so to speak, serving… … Fig. — VENETIAN FROSTED GLASS (LoUVre). some of another colour. Fashion gave the order, and then it was that manufacturers invented frosted glass in yellow, green, lilac, pink, etc. The mode of manufacture employed to obtain this frosted appearance, astonishing as it may appear, is, as we shall…
Glass manufacture · Glassware
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