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 . r decayed condi-tion at Liege, in the beginning of the eighteenthcentury, many of the Italians had sunk to thecondition of coverers of bottles ; this fashion wasderived from the Romans, and by them from theEgyptians who used papyrus stalks for the Duke of Newcastle holds his glass by the foot, according to the old world practice. In Martin Schons print of the Adoration, Melchiorand Balthazar both present their
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 . r decayed condi-tion at Liege, in the beginning of the eighteenthcentury, many of the Italians had sunk to thecondition of coverers of bottles ; this fashion wasderived from the Romans, and by them from theEgyptians who used papyrus stalks for the Duke of Newcastle holds his glass by the foot, according to the old world practice. In Martin Schons print of the Adoration, Melchiorand Balthazar both present their cups holding themby the feet, the Ethiopian king raising the cover ofhis offering. In the BibliscJie Figuren of VirgilSolis, within borders, printed at Frankfort in 1565 — Apokalypsis, XVII.—the woman arrayed inpurple and scarlet colour holds the golden cupof abominations aloft by the foot— Die rote Hur den Drachen reit. Den Kelch dess Giffts und griiwels treit. Albert Durers Great Fortune does likewise,and so do several of the figures in Franz Halss Banquet of the Officers of the Arquebusiers ofSt. Adrian, at Haarlem. Many other illustrationsmisjht be
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