ANALYSIS OF VESSEL GLASS FROM ACTON COURT, AVON
Author(s): C Mortimer
Twelve fragments of sixteenth-century vetro a filigrano were analysed. All components are good quality soda-lime-silica glass, the opaque white cases and trails having elevated levels of tin and lead oxides. The compositions are comparable with those of contemporary Venetian-style and of Venetian-style glass found in England. An opaque white trail on a piece of coloured glass proved to have a very different composition; silica-lead-potash. Analysis of seven fragments of coloured vessel glass, probably also of Venetian origin, showed that soda- lime- silica glasses were also used for this purpose, with manganese and iron oxide being amongst the oxides involved in their colouration.
- Report Number:
- 98/1993
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 17
- Keywords:
- Glass
