latticiniolatticinon.
An opaque white glass used in threads for decorative purposes in Venetian glass. Hence attributive.
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1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance ix. 348 The opaque white glass, the latticinio most usually employed in the filagree Venetian glasses, is only a glass coloured milk-white by oxide of tin or arsenic.
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 229 There are the millefiori,..The latticino, with graceful milk-white spirals. The avventurino, with the lustre of pure gold.
1937 Burlington Mag. Nov. 218/2 Venetian latticino glass of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Sept. 26/2 Latticinio glass is produced by pouring clear glass around fine ‘canes’ or rods of white..glass to form a thick rod with thin white rods embedded in it.
1972 Sunday Tel. 21 May 10/7 Collectors..will be burying their visual senses in millefiori, butterflies, latticinio.
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