Topic: Sucking on an iron when making glass - explanation needed please?

[KevinH]

Thanks for the link, m. If your query is "how did they add the gilded surface to the interior of the bowl, then I think it is simply a "flashing" process.

[flying free]

ah, I'm not sure about that.  I read that somewhere but then Charles mentions something about this and says
'Some smaller examples,including salt cellars, are stained yellow on the slumped part of the bowl'.

That to me implies they might have been given a layer of yellow glass somehow which I suppose would look gold with the silver internal colourant behind it.
m

[rosieposie]

Is this the same technique that is described in Angela Bowey's Glass encyclopedia?

http://www.theglassmuseum.com/mercury.html

[flying free]

yes, and there it says 'to enhance the opulent look of the hollowed silver glassware, gold coloured lacquer was often used on the inside'.

But it doesn't look like it's an applied 'lacquer' on mine - but I could be wrong.