The Art of Glass

European folklore

• Alkaline Frit is historically related to Sand.

  Neri’s opening frit chapters seat alkaline crystal frit among polverine, rochetta, and barilla salts melted with white tarso sand or pebbles in the calcar into bollito for cristallo. A named alkaline-frit in that glass-soda workshop speech, not lead-frit as Piccolpasso’s lead glaze batch and not ceramic-frit as the generic potter silica melt alone.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Gold Ruby Glass is historically related to Gold.

  Neri’s transparent-red chapters seat gold-ruby among fine cristallo coloured by repeatedly calcined gold powder sprinkled into the melt until a rubie red appears. A named gold-ruby-glass in that colour speech, not cranberry as later Victorian pink table glass and not purple-of-cassius as the post-Neri gold-tin precipitate name alone.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Milk Glass is historically related to Tin.

  Neri’s milk-white Lattimo recipes seat opaque white glass among crystal frit opacified with calcined tin until the metal surpasses snow in whiteness. A named milk-glass in that lattimo speech, not tin-glaze as ceramic maiolica enamel and not milk-white enamel paste alone.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Tin Oxide is historically related to Tin.

  Neri’s lattimo and enamel opacifying speech seats calcined tin — the workshop tin-oxide white — among the powders that whiten crystal frit and enamel metals. A named tin-oxide in that glass opacifier speech, not purple-of-cassius as the gold-tin red precipitant and not tin-glaze as the finished ceramic coat.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Smalti is historically related to Glass.

  Neri’s enamel books seat smalti among coloured glass pastes and goldsmith enamels melted from glass metals with copper, lead, zaffer, and manganese for lamp and furnace work. A named smalti in that glass-colour speech, not stained-glass window sheets alone and not machine vitreous-tessera craft chips.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Annealing lehr is historically related to Kiln.

  Neri’s English PD apparatus seats the Leer among the annealing chambers of the glass furnace where finished vessels cool and colourants calcine near the occhio. A named annealing-lehr in that furnace speech, not a glory-hole reheating bocca and not a pottery biscuit kiln alone.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Glory hole is historically related to Fire.

  Neri’s English PD furnace apparatus seats the working Bocca and scalding hole among fire ports where vessels are reheated and metal taken from the pots. A named glory-hole in that reheating-port speech, not the Hand of Glory charm and not the annealing Leer chamber alone.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Marver is used in Workshop.

  Neri’s English PD working chapters seat the marble table among workshop tools where the gather is rolled before blowing, uniting the hot metal on the iron. A named marver in that glasshouse speech, not a glory-hole fire port and not an annealing Leer.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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Alchemy

• Phial is used in Alchemy.

  Neri’s preface seats glass vials among Spagyrical and distilling vessels — bodies, receivers, pelicans, retorts, and vials — necessary to prepare medicines. A named phial in that pharmacy-glass speech, not a medicine-glass graduated tablespoon alone and not an albarello maiolica jar.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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• Pelican (alchemical) is used in Alchemy.

  Neri’s preface seats Pelicans among the glass instruments of distilling and Spagyrical work beside retorts, receivers, and philosophical eggs. A named pelican-alchemical in that circulatory-vessel speech, not pelican the bird and not pelican-in-her-piety as heraldic charge.

  from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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