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 18, 2024.
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descriptionPage 225
CHAP. CLXX. Another Red Enamel of a very Splendid Ruby-colour.
THE Beauty of this Enamel is very surprising, and of as lively a Lustre as the Ruby it self, which it communicates to all the Work wherein 'tis used.
For this fine Effect we must have recourse to the fusible Manganese in Chap. 164. add twenty Ounces thereof to each pound of Crystal ground, mentioned Chap. 163. let the whole be well purified, then try the Colour, and according as you find it, add the greater or lesser quantity of Manganese, or Crystal ground respectively, until it be brought to its just degree of perfection, as a Ruby, and which ought to be very admirable.
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