Glass blank

The Portland Vase at The British Museum is an example of a piece of glass created using a cased glass blank.

A glass blank is a piece of glass that requires additional decoration before it is considered finished.[1] Types of decoration include cutting, engraving, acid-etching, gilding, and enameling. Often the term blank is used in reference to an uncut piece of glass that will be cut or engraved.[2] "Blank" is used in the same way of pottery, especially porcelain, that was often decorated elsewhere, for example by hausmalers.

  1. ^ "Blank - Glass Dictionary". www.cmog.org. Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  2. ^ Shotwell, David J. (2002). Glass A to Z. Iola, WI: Krause Publications. p. 42. ISBN 0873493850.