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GLASS. 333 The common feature of all these objects lies in the fact that their decorations are apparently in the thickness of the body, and an examination of unfinished or deteriorated examples shows how the process was carried out without injury to the brilliancy of the colours used. The stages of the operation were as follows. The glass was first impregnated with its ground colour and then blown into its FIG. 256. Bottle in the Greau Collection. Height 7 inches. first general shape ; while still hot and soft it was rotated on a metal rod while the workman engraved with a point the lines of the intended decoration ; after this, and while the vase was still possesses two more of the same shape and colour, which both came from Cameiros. There are grounds, therefore, to ascribe the same provenance to this example. Fig. 3, from Upper Egypt.