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

Stemware: The collective name for drinking vessels
and serving dishes with a stem supporting the bowl.
Stick lighting, stickwork: The process of using a point
to scratch internal details in painted or enameled decoration.
Stippling: (1) The technique of tapping the surface of a
glass object with a pointed tool, often with a diamond
or tungsten-carbide tip. Each tap produces a mark, and
the decoration is composed of many hundreds or thousands
of marks. (2) on lacy-pattern glass, the stippling
is part of the decoration of the mold.
Stirrup cup: (1) A cup of wine or some other drink
handed to a person when on horseback and about to
set out on a journey; hence (2) a drinking vessel for
consuming such drinks.
Stone: Any crystalline inclusion present in glass. stones
consist of unmelted particles of batch, fragments of re-
Stippled bowl. England, Laurence Whistler,
1974. H. 22.4 cm.
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