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Smalt at the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
If the word smalt is unfamiliar to you, you are not alone. Smalt is ground cobalt blue glass, an inexpensive way to obtain a dark blue pigment that goes back at least to ancient Egypt. The expensive way was to grind lapis lazuli imported from Afghanistan, and, indeed, ultramarine, the name for a dark blue color paint today, means "beyond the sea," referring to that source during the Bronze Age lapis trade.
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To make smalt, cobalt ore is smelted, and the resulting cobalt oxide poured into molten glass. ...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques December 1, 2006 700+ words
...and glass). The Warner House boasts many innovative...possible that the Warner House, which Drew designed...appropriated for the Warner House from Palladio's great treatise. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The house is also...
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- Collectors' notes.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Gustafson, Eleanor H. February 1, 2005 700+ words
...glass globe reproduced at the Warner House Joyce Geary Volk, who wrote...the parlor bedchamber of the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...and hung before a lamp." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] About the globular water...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt February 1, 2005 700+ words
...houses centuries old. An example is the parlor bedchamber of the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (described on pages 66-71 of...or consult their Web site (www.prattandlambert.com). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]