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... glass Cameo glass engraving technique Syrian. Antiquity and the Middle Ages EARLY GLASS It is not certain in which of the civilizations of the ancient Near East glass was first made . The earliest wholly glass objects from Egypt are ...
... glass Cameo glass engraving technique Syrian. Antiquity and the Middle Ages EARLY GLASS It is not certain in which of the civilizations of the ancient Near East glass was first made . The earliest wholly glass objects from Egypt are ...
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... glass , and the process of fire polishing was being used to give a surface almost as smooth as that of blown glass . During the succeeding decades pressed- glass designs became increasingly complicated . This ten- dency was accentuated ...
... glass , and the process of fire polishing was being used to give a surface almost as smooth as that of blown glass . During the succeeding decades pressed- glass designs became increasingly complicated . This ten- dency was accentuated ...
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... glass . DAVID EVANS , A Bibliography of Stained Glass ( 1982 ) , is also recommended . Stained - glass techniques are discussed in THEophilus ( rug- ERUS ) , Diversarum Artium Schedula ( 1847 ; Eng . trans . 1963 ) , the earliest ...
... glass . DAVID EVANS , A Bibliography of Stained Glass ( 1982 ) , is also recommended . Stained - glass techniques are discussed in THEophilus ( rug- ERUS ) , Diversarum Artium Schedula ( 1847 ; Eng . trans . 1963 ) , the earliest ...
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