Crown Glass

Crown glass is either of two kinds of glass:

  • Crown glass (window) was a type of hand-blown window glass.
  • Crown glass (optics) is a type of optical glass used in lenses.

Famous quotes containing the words crown and/or glass:

    “A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”
    —Bible: New Testament Revelation 12:1.

    “We are little airy creatures,
    All of different voice and features:
    One of us in glass is set,
    One of us you’ll find in jet,
    T’other you may see in tin,
    And the fourth a box within;
    If the fifth you should pursue,
    It can never fly from you.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)