Glass: A Pocket Dictionary Of Terms Commonly Used - Corning ...

Baluster:
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Aventurine (from French aventure, “chance”): Translucent
glass with sparkling inclusions of gold, copper, or
chromic oxide, first made in venice in the 15th century.
Aventurine glass imitates the mineral of the same name,
a variety of translucent quartz spangled with mica or
other minerals.
Avolio (italian): A small quantity of glass that joins the
stem and the foot of goblets and similar forms.
A type of English drinking glass of the late
17th and 18th centuries, with the stem in the form of a
baluster. (in architecture, a baluster is a short vertical
support with a circular section and a vaselike outline.)
Baluster goblet.
England, probably
1707. H. 23.5 cm.
Balustroid: A variety of baluster glass with an elongated
stem, current in England between about 1725 and 1760.
Bandwurmglas (German, “tapeworm glass”): A variety
of Stangenglas decorated with a notched trail wound
spirally, like a worm, around the wall. Glasses of this
type were made in Germany between the 15th and
17th centuries.