The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.

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The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.
Author
Haudicquer de Blancourt, Jean, b. ca. 1650.
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London :: Printed for Dan. Brown ... Tho. Bennet ... D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh ... and R. Wilkin ...,
1699.
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Subject terms
Glass manufacture -- Early works to 1800.
Enamel and enameling -- Early works to 1800.
Precious stones.
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"The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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Page 90

CHAP. XLV. Another Sea-green far finer than the rest.

NEri seems to be the Inventor of this new Sea-green, and to have first Experimented it. It is made with Caput Mortuum of * 1.1 Vitriol of Venus without any Corrosive, which is a very curi∣ous preparation, we will shew it at the End of the 7th Book. This Caput Mortuum ought to be expo∣sed to the Air for some days, in a place where the Sun cannot come, where (by a Magnetical Virtue) it will attract the Universal Spirit; which will re∣store to it again Part of that it has lost by Extracti∣on it has Suffered, and will become of a whitish green Colour. Then pound it with the same dose of Zaffer prepared as in Chap. 43. put the whole into a Pot fill'd with Crystal Metal, very fine and well purified from its Salt, observing all we have noted on this Subject; and it will make an extraor∣dinary fine Sea-green.

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