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

such glass is often known by the term “lead crystal.”
See also Flint glass.
Leaded glass: Composite arrangements of pieces of
flat glass that are held together by lead (or sometimes
by zinc or some other metal) cames. Stained glass
windows are the most prominent examples of leaded
glass.
Lehr, leer: The oven used for annealing glassware. Early
lehrs were connected to the furnace by flues, but the
difficulty of controlling heat and smoke made this arrangement
impracticable. later lehrs were long, bricklined,
separately heated tunnels through which the glass
objects were slowly pushed. The glass remained in the
lehr for several hours, while it was gradually reheated
and then uniformly cooled. Today, lehrs work on a conveyor
belt system.
Lentoid flask: A flask with a lens-shaped body.
Lily-pad decoration: Decoration consisting of
a gather around the base of the vessel, which
has been drawn upward in four or more projections
with rounded ends. lily-pad decoration
was introduced to America by German glassworkers.
it became popular in new England,
new york, and new Jersey
in the second quarter
of the 19th century.
Sugar bowl and cream jug
with lily-pad decoration.
U.S., about 1835–1850.
OH. (bowl) 27.2 cm.
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