Specimens of fused coloured glass and a Chinese vase mb-height 1640 9 November 1837

9 November 1837

Including a key to the figures

Durham Cathedral in Durham City

A man - presumably her husband - holds the rope

the female plant of Cannabis sativa

Specimens of fused coloured glass and a Chinese vase mb-height 1640 9 November 1837Eight figures of ancient coloured glass, including a yellow Chinese vase. Plate 6 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849). Inscribed: 'PLATE 6. 1. Venetian Ball. 2. Millefiore. 3. 4. 5. Roman Fragments. 6. Artificial Sardonyx. 7. Roman Mosaic Gem. 8. Chinese Glass.' Artist and lithographer are not noted on