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A classic 20-facet Soviet table-glass, produced in the city of Gus-Khrustalny since 1943. Tumblers are flat-bottomed drinking glasses. Collins glass, for a tall mixed drink. [5] Dizzy cocktail glass, a glass with a wide, shallow bowl, comparable to a normal cocktail glass but without the stem; Faceted glass or granyonyi stakan
The gold(III) chloride can also be dissolved in water in electroless plating wherein the gold is slowly reduced out of solution onto the surface to be gilded. When this technique is used on the second surface of glass and backed with silver, it is known as " Angel gilding ".
The Royal Gold Cup is an exceptionally rare survival, made before 1391 for John, Duke of Berry, a French prince, who gave it to his uncle, Charles VI of France. It is in gold, decorated with jewels and scenes in enamel, with a cover and a boiled leather carrying case.
Roman gold glass beads were made by using an inner tube or rod to which the gold leaf was stuck. A larger tube was slid over that and the beads crimped off. Easily transported and very attractive, Roman gold glass beads have been found as far outside the Empire as the Wari-Bateshwar ruins in Bangladesh, and sites in China, Korea, Thailand and ...
The question nags me as I consider that bottle, sitting in pride of place on the top shelf of the brass-and-glass back bar. “We’re the only place in the country where you can have that by the ...
These cruets are usually made of glass, though sometimes they are made of precious metals such as gold or silver. Cruets specifically intended for religious ceremonies come in pairs: one to contain water, often marked A for Aqua, and one to contain wine, V for Vinum. These two liquids are mixed during the portion known as the Preparation of the ...
Tap water is not sterile and may contain waterborne germs, such as bacteria, fungi and amebas, which form a biofilm barrier to water treatment chemicals — mainly chlorine and chloramine ...
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Arthurian revisionist fantasy novel The Mists of Avalon (1983) presented the Grail as a symbol of water, part of a set of objects representing the four classical elements. The main theme of Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail (2000) in her Guenevere series is the story of the Grail quest by the 14-year-old Galahad.