CHAP. CXXVI. Another Violet-Sapphire of a deeper Colour.
THIS Sapphire will be very fine, but of a very deep Colour, and if any Person desire it to be lighter, he may easily make it so, by diminishing one
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.
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- 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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- 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 18, 2024.
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fourth part of the tinging Ingredients which we add to Crystal.
Take to make this, two Ounces of our Powder of Crystal, two Ounces, five Drams, and twenty four Grains of Verdigrease, thirty two Grains of Azure, and two Drams of Sublimate, the whole in very fine Powder. As to the baking of it observe what we have said in Chap. 124.