Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . 866 855 852 840. FIFTH AFTERNOONS SALEThursday, January 29th, 1903 BEGINNING PROMPTLY AT 3 OCLOCK Antique Greek and Roman Glass The well-known story of the discovery of glass by nitre merchants of Tyre, who accidentallyfused some of their merchandise with the sand of the river bank on which they were cooking theirdinner, has long since been set aside as itself an ingenious but baseless invention. Glass was pre-ceded and led up to by glazed/ pottery and glazed stone in Egypt, in the neolithic period,
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . 866 855 852 840. FIFTH AFTERNOONS SALEThursday, January 29th, 1903 BEGINNING PROMPTLY AT 3 OCLOCK Antique Greek and Roman Glass The well-known story of the discovery of glass by nitre merchants of Tyre, who accidentallyfused some of their merchandise with the sand of the river bank on which they were cooking theirdinner, has long since been set aside as itself an ingenious but baseless invention. Glass was pre-ceded and led up to by glazed/ pottery and glazed stone in Egypt, in the neolithic period, and this artof glazing followed upon that of smelting copper, the oldest colors in glazes and in glass being copperblue, and green, with violet from the manganese which is found in the copper one. These glazes pre-cede the historic period in Egypt on beads and other small objects. Blown glass vessels (Egyptian)are known from a very early period. We must assign to the fifteenth or sixteenth century theopaque blue glass, the kyanos of the Homeric poems, which Schliemann found set in alabaster todecorate
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