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

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Gold ruby goblet. Germany, about
1720–1735. H. 26.9 cm.
and polished vessels, which were then
fused. Many roman gold glasses apparently
were made by applying the gold
leaf to the surface of an object, reheating
it, and inflating a parison against the decorated
surface.
Gold ruby: Deep red glass colored by the
addition of gold chloride to the batch. The
method of making gold ruby glass was perfected
by Johann Kunckel (1637–1703) in
Potsdam shortly before 1679.
Gold sandwich glass: See Gold glass.
Gold-band mosaic glass: A variety of ribbon glass that
includes canes composed of bands of gold foil laminated
between two layers of colorless glass. Gold-band
mosaic glass was made in parts of the roman world in
the first century b.C. and the first century A.D.
Graal: A type of decorative glass developed by orrefors
of sweden in 1916. The design is carved, engraved, or
etched on a parison of colored glass, which is then reheated
and cased in a thick layer of transparent glass
of a different color, and inflated.
Grape flask: An ancient roman mold-blown flask with
the body in the form of a bunch of grapes.
Grenade: A type of bottle with a short, narrow neck and
a globular body, which apparently was filled with water
and thrown into flames to serve as a fire extinguisher.
Aeolipiles are sometimes identified, probably incorrectly,
as grenades.