Sentence examples for example of glass from inspiring English sources

What we see on approaching the Rose Center may well be the finest example of glass curtain wall construction ever realized in the United States.

So called for the two-story white curtain he hung in place of walls, it is his sly tribute to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, an early example of glass "curtain wall" architecture.

An example of glass in this category is the second type identified in Catharina van Hemessen's Portrait of a Woman (NG 4732) (Table 1).

The transparent examples of glass in the window, also abjectly slumping, come from working in Seattle, with the same blower as Dale Chihuly.

His most important works are the windows he executed between 1490 and 1500 in Flanders for Tournai Cathedral and the Jesse window (1506) in Saint-Godard at Rouen, which is one of the most impressive examples of glass painting of the period.

Many other examples of glass engraved with artists' designs appear in the show, among them a set of 12 simple plates, each with a different sign of the Zodiac, by Don Wier and -- inspired by the simplicity of Orrefors -- Waugh's deep hemispheric glass bowl balanced on an angular Art Deco base and engraved with a design of gracefully leaping gazelles.

The cluster of five glasses seems to be associated with Levantine I glass, two samples correspond closely to somewhat earlier Roman glass from the first to fourth centuries, one window glass fragment is a clear example of HIMT glass while another window glass sample appears to be related to the Levantine II type.

One example of satin glass is matte-finished peachblow glass.

Portland Vase, Roman vase (1st century ad) of dark blue glass decorated with white figures, the finest surviving Roman example of cameo glass.

Both views are justifiable: it's a classic example of a glass being simultaneously half full and empty.

In Denmark the Holmegaard glassworks and in Norway the Hadeland glassworks both followed in some respects the example of Swedish glass.