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  2. Glass coloring and color marking - Wikipedia

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    Beer bottles of different colors. Glass coloring and color marking may be obtained in several ways. by the addition of coloring ions, [1] [2] by precipitation of nanometer-sized colloids (so-called striking glasses [1] such as "gold ruby" [3] or red "selenium ruby"), [2] Ancient Roman enamelled glass, 1st century, Begram Hoard.

  3. Reverse glass painting - Wikipedia

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    Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image. Another term used to refer to the art of cold painting and gilding on the back of glass is verre églomisé, named after the French decorator Jean-Baptiste ...

  4. Stained glass - Wikipedia

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    The most common method of adding the black linear painting necessary to define stained glass images is the use of what is variously called "glass paint", "vitreous paint", or "grisaille paint". This was applied as a mixture of powdered glass, iron or rust filings to give a black colour, clay, and oil, vinegar or water for a brushable texture ...

  5. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Pink is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light, consisting predominantly of a combination of both the longest and shortest wavelengths discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength ranges of roughly 625–750 nm and 380-490 nm. v. t. e. Shades of pink. Amaranth. Amaranth pink. Baker-Miller pink. Barbie Pink.

  6. China service of the Lincoln administration - Wikipedia

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    Solferino was a moderate purplish-red color similar to magenta—a highly popular color at the time. A dye that could create the solferino color had only been discovered in 1859, so asking for solferino color was asking for the trendiest color then available. It was also close to purple, which was Mrs. Lincoln's favorite color. Mrs.

  7. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.

  8. Han purple and Han blue - Wikipedia

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    Detail of a mural from an Eastern Han tomb near Luoyang, Henan showing a pair of Liubo players, containing both Han blue and Han purple pigments. Han purple and Han blue (also called Chinese purple and Chinese blue) are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments developed in China and used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han ...

  9. Purple of Cassius - Wikipedia

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    Purple of Cassius is a purple pigment formed by the reaction of gold salts with tin (II) chloride. It has been used to impart glass with a red coloration (see cranberry glass ), as well as to determine the presence of gold as a chemical test . Generally, the preparation of this material involves gold being dissolved in aqua regia, then reacted ...