Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . tohave given the cup to the martyr prelate. The well-known rarity of the use of ^ See Appendix, Original Documents, No. V.^ Proceedings, Society of Antiquaries, 2 S., vol. v. p. 442. CHAP. V. EXAMPLES OF VERZELINFS GLASSES. 163 glass chalices, and other reasons, make it difficult to believe that the cup servedfor this purpose at so late a date ; but it has particular interest if it may beconsidered as English work, which s
Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . tohave given the cup to the martyr prelate. The well-known rarity of the use of ^ See Appendix, Original Documents, No. V.^ Proceedings, Society of Antiquaries, 2 S., vol. v. p. 442. CHAP. V. EXAMPLES OF VERZELINFS GLASSES. 163 glass chalices, and other reasons, make it difficult to believe that the cup servedfor this purpose at so late a date ; but it has particular interest if it may beconsidered as English work, which seems probable, and supports the view that afew glass-drinking vessels of a higher quality than those produced in the Wealdcontinued to be made in England up to the arrival of Edward Venetians. By the will of John Whitfield, who died in 1691, he bequeathed QueenElizabeths glass, which was his grandfathers.^ The date of this record carriesconviction as to the authenticity of the glass, but it no longer exists. There is good reason for believing that a tazza-shaped glass, 5-g^ inches high,said to have been used by Queen Elizabeth, and now in the royal collection at.
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