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

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Burmese lamp. U.S., Mt. Washington Glass
Company, about 1885–1895. H. 48.5 cm.
Burmese: A type of translucent
yellow-shading-to-pink Art Glass
made by the Mt. Washington Glass
Company in new bedford, Massachusetts,
between 1885 and
about 1895.
Burner: The part of a lamp where the
flame is produced.
Burning fluid: A mixture of alcohol
and turpentine, used as lamp fuel in
the 19th century. burning fluid, which
was dangerously explosive, was replaced
by kerosene in the late 1850s.
A pattern resembling the twisted strands of
a rope.
Caddy: A small, lidded container, usually for tea.
Cage cup: An ancient roman vessel decorated by undercutting
so that the surface decoration stands free of the
body of the glass, supported by struts. The vessel appears,
therefore, to be enclosed in an openwork cage.
Cage cups are sometimes known as diatreta or vasa
diatreta.
Calcedonio (italian, “chalcedony”): Glass marbled with
brown, blue, green, and yellow swirls in imitation of chalcedony
and other banded semiprecious stones. Calcedonio
was first made in venice in the late 15th century.
Came: A grooved strip of lead or (rarely) another metal,
generally with an H-shaped cross section, used to join
separate parts of glass windows.