Topic summary
Rock crystal
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Quartz.
Uses
- Rock crystal jug with cut festoon decoration by a Milan workshop from the second half of the 16th century, National Museum, Warsaw. Milan, apart from Prague and Florence, was the main Renaissance centre for crystal cutting.
- Synthetic quartz crystals produced in the autoclave shown in Western Electric's pilot hydrothermal quartz plant in 1959
- Fatimid ewer in carved rock crystal (clear quartz) with gold lid, c. 1000