His selection of blue glass as a medium was probably based upon the theory that the blue ray of the solar spectrum possesses superior actinic or chemical properties.
Cases of neuralgia and rheumatism were said to have been benefited, the development of young infants vastly promoted, while as a tonic for producing hair on bald heads, blue glass was a veritable specific.
Encouraged by this success, he built a piggery, having a glass roof, of which one portion was fitted with panes of blue glass, and the other with ordinary transparent glass.
The antiquities from it are hatchets of serpentine and chloromelanite, fragments of vases, a large bead of blue glass, a bronze hatchet, and a canoe.
Of other ornaments found on the island on Lough-na-Glack I may particularly mention several amber and blue glass beads, three bone pins, and a comb apparently of ivory.
The latter has in the central perforation a tube of bronze, and the edge of both sides of the perforation is ornamented by three minute bands of twisted yellow glass, while the body is of blue glass, of a ribbed pattern (=Fig.
These studs are sometimes of blue glass, and we are then reminded of a style of decoration in use in earlier times--blue bosses or ribs, appliques or fused into the body of the bowl.
Pale greenish-blue glass, with remains of the gilding that formerly covered it.
Have I passed by silver and gold enough to make me rich for all my life, only to find a little piece of blue glass?
Why, nothing but something that looked like a piece of blue glass not a big bigger than my thumb.
Yes; it looked just like a piece ofblue glass no bigger than my thumb, and nothing else.
Overleaf are some fragments of diaper pattern so picked out, from Canterbury, which would possibly never have been devised if the designer had had to his hand just the shade of blue glass he wanted.
For a long while glass painters used this ruby glass and a blue glass made in the same way precisely as though it had been self-coloured.
A large sky-blue glass bead is slipped on over both parts of the lanyard and pushed up close to the loop.
It is smoothly carved and has a fragment of sky-blue glass inlaid to represent the left eye and a bit of iron pyrites for the right.
Why, nothing but something that looked like a piece of blue glass not a bit bigger than my thumb.
SMALT, Invented about the year 1540, in Saxony, is a vitreous compound of cobalt and silica, in fact a blue glass.
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