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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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CHAP. CLXV. The Way to make a Fixt Sulphur, to be used in Composi∣tions for Enamel.

THIS Fixt Sulphur serves for several uses in Chy∣mistry, and very convenient for obliging young Artists.

Now, tho' it be not so unavoidably necessary for making Red Enamel, yet we will not omit it here, be∣cause it contributes to our prescribing two sorts of ways for it, as well as to satisfie the more curious Goldsmiths.

Put Flowers of Sulphur, as much as you please, into a Glass Cucurbite luted at bottom, pouring there∣to Oyl-Olive as much as will drown the Matter by two Inches, set the Cucurbite on a violent Sand-Furnace, for a full Hour, then take it off, and pour in strong Vinegar, and the Sulphur will soon preci∣pitate, and the Oyl ascend on the Surface of the Vi∣negar, decant this from the Sulphur into another Vessel, and put in more fresh Oyl as before, do thus thrice, and you'll have at length a fixt Sulphur to make use of for Enamel.