Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
RESTRRECTIONl

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 One of the Lost Arts of the Early worl,
 Completely Restored to Mankind y,s..
 Murrhins Glass Produced in Its Anei.r,
 Glory by Dr. Fowler. of Boston.
 Of all the great modern discoveries the world of physical science, rotbir. has so completely taken the imaginst,oS of mechanical inventors by surprise 1- promised a larger and richer harves, ,s results than the restoration Cf the Ios. art of the aneients, known as Vgssa-lTr- rhina glass, the achievement and tI. triumph of Dr. Fowler, of Boston. a ra' ognized head Of the American nlad,c-I profession. The news of this slnpuI,-I- interesting and important discovery L-. hardly yet ceased to be news. b1, tJ- announcement of the fact in scisn,:s, and literary circles, and among the srrbs tects and builders and mechanical s-,,-. of the nation, has been received y5.I but one feeling. and that Is. tba, tL finding of this secret of the apcisDt' and the full and complete restoratio,-|s the subtlest and most valuable of al ,lt ancient arts and industries, is sir,,-, the most startling development Of s,Tsr titic investigation that has been reco-5-4 ID the past hundred years. That ia ~ say, the most startling in its urscti.,-l significance-the most important m ;.- bearings upon the decorative arts s-I the architectural and industrial rss-,-. ces Of ciyihzatiOn-its manifest an5 ;-, mediate destiny being to restore to ,r human race the richest element of o--- mental building and the most prsc;o-. material of domestic manufactnras ,t,-. has ever been known to mankind .-5 the artificial reproduction of ybicb I.- been vainly attem pted by every civiI,7s5 race and nation for the past tgeDty-f,- hundred years. The truth is t.q. Vsss.
 Murrhina glass has not been rlada l,;r its late successful production in Bos,o- | by pr. FOwlerl since the co1ma-.,I ! days of the Parthians, seven hu75--5 years anterior to the birth of Cp-,s.
 with the exception of some very ir17s.
 feet attempts made by the Romans d1. ing the imperlal dynasty. [. was rude and imperfect s,.
 tempt, but the product, nevertbelass
 such was the Roman appreciation of tb,
 ;hen nearly lost art, brought fabul7-. | prices, like some rare summer H1vs.
 lmperfectly reblossomIng in rnid.vir,..
 and was only to be found in the prs...
 sion of princes and very opulent n-- | sOns. In the thirteenth century. vb.,
 -he great art of the earlier world Isv | yelled in the oblivion of two thonssTi | years, the Venetians made attemrtst t- | lnearth its mysteries and restore n. | splendOrs to the medl1val period Inn. he attempt was nothing more than sr | IlustratnOus failure, as have been Al
 other labors and studies and ezDa-..
 meuts from the last days ot the Ps--S.
 ians down to the present year Co t5-
 day of Dr. Flowers triumphant accom-. | .ishment of a task that had batB-d ,F. | genius of the invention, and the know | edge of ten thousand generations 5i
 mankind.
 So that, when 1t leaked out early tb-
 past week that this gifted citizen oi | Boston had arrived in the clty and VA,
 stopping at the Palmer house, and tba. | parlOrs NJ, \, and O were the scene of "A | genuine exhibition of the loug-los.
 Vassa-Murrhina glass, there Was rush | of reporters to secure the frs. ,nter. view. The Times representative at once | acknowledged himself strangely d dazzI4i by the splendors of the "speclusps-
 the group consisting mainly of yas.s
 and panels, delicate amphor;p, knobs. bulbs, aquaria, crystal pendants, and whatnots of the glass-wOrker's art. all 4
 them not only exquisite of shape but al of them unrivaled by any combInsto1
 of cplors that recent ages and recent | generations have seen. And m this hs,
 the main value of the restored art, the
 suffusiOn of glass with all tbe hu.s | known to the human eye and Co the bu.
 man imagination, till gold and silvs-.
 inwrought and ingraiued m the glass
 body, gleam and glow and scintllate
 amid all the colors of earth or sky-o, course not all in one single burst d, ! splendOr nor in the same piece, for vaus- | ty rules everywhere, and each piece forms in itself distinct and separate
 kaleidoscope. All of the specimens
 were ascertained to be exact fac-similes
 of those in the Slade collection in ths
 British museum, London, ard 0' ta-
 Jarvis group in the MetrOpOltan ca
 lection, New York city.-Chicago Tines