1.   Lead crystal glass Hot water and dishwasher detergent can cause pitting or cracking.

2.   Some of the finest drinking glasses are made from lead crystal.

3.   At the time, The Globe did not know that Ms. Grant had pleaded no contest to killing her mother with a lead crystal candlestick holder.

4.   Lead crystal chandeliers have been recast in southwestern France and oak paneling has been installed here and there to improve acoustics and appearance.

5.   Even Swarovski, the chic crystal house from Austria, paid the highest homage to this maestro by letting him work on some of its beautiful lead crystal blocks.

6.   Lenox Crystal has closed its last stemware manufacturing plant in the United States, a plant that was the first U.S. glass factory devoted to hand-blown lead crystal.

7.   The bowl, made of pure lead crystal, sits on a personalized solid crystal plinth.