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

Pane: A piece of flat sheet glass
used for glazing windows. See
also Crown glass and Cylinder
glass.
Paperweight: A small,
heavy object designed to
hold down loose papers. The
first glass paperweights were
made in the early 1840s in
venice and France, and their
manufacture spread rapidly
to other parts of Europe and
the United states. Glass
paperweights ceased to be
fashionable in the early 20th
century, but the craft of making
them revived in the 1950s.
Parcioffi (italian): Jacks with
blades made of wood.
Pâte de verre relief.
France, François-Emile
Décorchemont, about
1930. H. 33 cm.
Parison (from French paraison): A gather, on the end of
a blowpipe, that is already partly inflated.
Passglas (German, “pass glass”): A tall cylindrical drinking
vessel with trailed or enameled horizontal marks.
The drinker was supposed to gulp only enough to reach
the next horizontal mark, and then pass the glass to the
next person. if he drank too much, he was required to
reach the next mark, and so on.
Paste, glass paste: These terms and their French and
italian equivalents, pâte de verre and pasta vitrea, have
been used since at least the 17th century to describe the
composition of small objects such as medallions and
imitations of precious stones. However, their use to describe
such objects is incorrect (they were made with
molten glass, sometimes with a high lead content), and
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