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schmelz|ʃmɛlts|
Also erron. schmel(t)ze.
[a. G. schmelz enamel.]
Any one of several varieties of decorative glass; spec. a variety coloured red with a metallic salt, used to flash white glass. Also attrib.
[1854C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts I. 784/1 Smetz [sic: ? read Smelz] glass is formed by fusing lengths of coloured glass into each other, so that the section shall resemble carnelian and the agates. ]1859R. Hunt Guide Museum Pract. Geol. (ed. 2) 111 The Bohemian ruby is thus prepared:—a preparation called schmelze is made; it is composed of silica 500, minium 800, nitre 100, calcined potash 100. 1866Christie, Manson & Woods Sale Catal. 9 Feb. 1867 65 A vase, on foot, of tortoiseshell Schmeltze... A green basket, mounted with or-molu; and a Schmeltze ditto... A ball of variegated Schmeltze. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 652/1 That peculiar kind of glass usually called schmelz, an imperfect imitation of calcedony, was also made at Venice in the 15th century. 1882Hamilton Palace Collection Catal. No. 846 A Fluted Tumbler, of red and white schmelz. 1907E. Dillon Glass xii. 207 There are a few exceptionally fine early examples of this schmelz at South Kensington. 1961E. M. Elville Collector's Dict. Glass 183/1 Variegated or marbled opaque glass, commonly known by the German word schmeltz.
Also ‖ Schmelzglas.
1935W. A. Thorpe English Glass v. 148 Measey and Greene ordered and sold the following lines, but the list applies generally to the members of the Company, and excepting the items of opaque-white and calcedonic (marbled glass or Schmelzglas) it may be taken as a production list. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 10/2 ‘Agate’ glass, a glass of several colours which have been allowed to mingle before the vessel is formed, in imitation of agate. This type of glass was popular during the Renaissance.., particularly in Venice and Germany, and is sometimes known as Schmelzglas. 1975Oxf. Compan. Decorative Arts 398 Not only did they [the Venetians] reproduce the Roman ‘mosaic’ and millefiori glass and the material made of blended opaque colours in imitation of natural stones (calcedonio, sometimes miscalled Schmelzglas), but they seem even to have copied..typical Roman shapes. |