Old English furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. A guide for the collector (1909)
Wheeler, George Owen · London, L. U. Gill · leaf 682
654 Old English Furniture. In that most admirable work we learn that glass, “ a solid and transparent body formed by the fusion of siliceous and alkaline matter,” was known to the Egyptians and Phoenicians of old, and that glass orna- … Early and very fine Convex Mirror. Circa 1780. Owned by Messrs. Gill and Reigate. ments have been recovered from the old Egyptian burving- places. The secret, we are told, was “ learnt by the Crusaders and brought to Venice in the thirteenth century.”
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