A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 194
THE VITREOUS ART of the blow-pipe, as indeed is the foot itself. The shears were used to give the shape required to the foot and to limit the height of the bowl. Fig. 49 is a wholly modern bottle- shaped vase of Venice glass, to which the elab- orate wreath of leaves and flowers is attached while… … of a flowering Fig. 48. Wine-glass, seventeenth century branch twisted spirally around the vase. The body is thick, nearly transparent, and of a delicate amber, while the leaves and flowers are subdued green and blue in many gradations of color. The extreme brilliancy of colored glass sug- gests…
Art · Decorative arts
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