Sauzay, A. (Alexandre), 1804-1870 · London, S. Low, son, and Marston · leaf 123
ttles, and although they only weigh about one pound ten ounces, yet they contain nearly one pint and a quarter. France manufactures annually from about 60,000 tons of bottles (each bottle weighing about two pounds three ounces), nearly 23,000 tons of which are for exportation. More than 10,000 tons… … Fig. 20 — MOULD FOR CLARET BOTTLES. their want of elegance, and invariable uniformity in shape. These defects, which doubtless were greater formerly than at the present time, induced the Italians of the sixteenth century, who sought elegance, colour, form, and artistic work, to banish these…
Glass manufacture · Glassware
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