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  2. Bristol blue glass - Wikipedia

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    During the late 18th century Richard Champion, a Bristol merchant and potter, making Bristol porcelain, was working with a chemist, William Cookworthy. [1] Cookworthy began a search for good quality cobalt oxide to give the blue glaze decoration on the white porcelain and obtained exclusive import rights to all the cobalt oxide from the Royal Saxon Cobalt Works in Saxony. [2]

  3. Cobalt glass - Wikipedia

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    Cobalt glass—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured glass prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or cobalt carbonate, in a glass melt. Cobalt is a very intense colouring agent and very little is required to show a noticeable amount of colour. Cobalt glass plates are used as an optical ...

  4. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    Cobalt blue, a pigment of cobalt oxide-aluminium oxide, was a favourite of Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. It was similar to smalt, a pigment used for centuries to make blue glass, but it was much improved by the French chemist Louis Jacques Thénard, who introduced it in 1802. It was very stable but extremely expensive.

  5. Fenton Art Glass Company - Wikipedia

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    Blue Pale to deep blue. [20] Cobalt Blue A deep shade of blue and the most sought after. [20] Independence Blue 1975-76 A cobalt blue carnival treatment made during the U.S.Bicentennial. [21] Green This color ranges from a deep green to a light yellow green. [20] Marigold A yellow orange color. [20] Red A red color that is deep when held to a ...

  6. Blue pigments - Wikipedia

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    It combined cobalt(II) oxide with aluminum(III) oxide at 1200 °C. It was also used as colorant, particularly in blue glass and as the blue pigment used for centuries in Chinese blue and white porcelain, beginning in the late eighth or early ninth century. [15] Cobalt glass, or Smalt, is a variation of cobalt blue. It is made of ground blue ...

  7. Fostoria Glass Company - Wikipedia

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    The glass used was crystal and seven colors of glass: amber, blue, green, pink, amethyst, brown, and ruby. Among Jamestown stemware, ruby is valued higher than other colors by collectors. [80] Among the milk glass patterns, Vintage was used for tableware and a few types of stemware from 1958 to 1965. [81]

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