Description:
Rectangular plate removed from a book; top third of the engraving depicts a glassblowing furnace and workmen, one man removes a gather of glass from the furnace, another places glass to cool in the annealing oven over the furnace, another sits on the glassblower's chair to make an object, other workmen use a marver to create a uniform thickness to the gather, finished glass objects sit on a wall shelf below a clock, below the image are illustrations of glassblowers tools. Figure 2, A is a blowpipe, B is a pontil rod, D are jacks or pucellas, E are shears, F is a caliper, Figure 3 A illustrates the production of a glass bottle using the jacks, Fig. 4 A shows inflation of the glass bubble or parison on the end of a blowpipe, Figure 5 D shows the jacks being used to open the lip of a bottle, Fig. 6 Shows the bottle having rings or glass applied to the neck, Fig. 7 show a two part, full size metal mold being used for to give shape and form to a gather of glass on the end of a blowpipe, Fig. 8 shows a tool with two attached rings(unknown purpose); printed at top of page, "GLASS BLOWERS." and "PL. 81" at the bottom of the illustration, "J. Farey Junr. del." and "Mutlow Sc Russell Cot." and beneath "Published by G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, March 1st. 1810."
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