Excerpt from Painting on Glass and Porcelain and Enamel Painting Although in the subjoined historical particulars the data handed down to us have been adhered to, we consider it, nevertheless, important to make thereon a few preliminary observations, which, indeed, involuntarily thrust themselves upon one's mind when visiting large museums. In the Egyptian collections in these museums we find a large number of objects presenting an indubitable proof that the Egyptians who lived 4000 years ago were already masters of the art of producing white and coloured glass and of glass smelting. On this account it is not improbable that they also understood how to apply certain permanent colours to individual portions of glass surfaces, thereby laying the foundation of the technical industry of glass painting. However, the art (in the true sense of the word) of paint ing on glass is very young, Since it was only in recent times that it was brought to the state in which we now see it, although the commencement of the art decidedly dates back as far as the first centuries of our era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.