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 186
THE VITREOUS ART from all decay and subsequent iridescence ; Fig. 45 bis a delicate greenish blue; and 45 ter a green so pale that the glass, while it retained its full transparency, must have been nearly as colorless as a modern fine tumbler. The fantastical han- dles and other applied ornaments… … Fig. 45 ter ter, are pinched up or raised from the body of the glass while plastic. Some of the vases in our museums are so large as to hold two gallons or thereabouts, these large ones being frequently used as cinerary1 urns. 1 Cinerary : having to do with ashes. Cinerary Urn : one used to contain…
Art · Decorative arts
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