smalts

"A. Salviati, A.vocato," is the legend of the bell-pull, and you do not by any means take this legal style for that of the restorer of a neglected art, and a possessor of forgotten secrets in gilded glass and "smalts," as they term the small delicate rods of vitreous substance, with which the wonders of the art are achieved.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

Mosaic, though an ancient art, is not merely a revived, but an improved one; for the Romans only used coloured marbles, or natural stones in its composition, which admitted of comparatively little variety; but the invention of smalts has given it a far wider range, and made the imitation of painting far closer.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various

It is as a powder-blue for the washtub that ultramarine gets disguised, when it is ground up with soda-ash, chalk, gypsum, &c., and sold sometimes under its own name, but more frequently as superfine Saxon smalts.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

With regard to smalts, they are, as artist's pigments, inferior in stability to other blues of cobalt.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

While the material used in mosaic wall decoration is sometimes a natural product, like marble, porphyry, coral, or alabaster, the picture is composed for the most part of artificially prepared smalts -- opaque glass of various colours, made in sheets and then cut up into cubes.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

After this, an establishment for making the smalts and gold glass was set up at Murano, and Venice no longer imported its material.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

Into this paste are stuck the _smalts_, of which the mosaic picture is formed.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various

Lapis-lazuli with gold veinings, malachite, coral, alabaster, and rare marbles superseded the smalts and gold of an elder day.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

They are divisible into three classes -- the stannic cerulian blue, the aluminous cobalt blues, and the siliceous smalts.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field