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 . en of thelatter an admirable illustrated article, Verre-Verrerie,has been contributed to the Dictionnaire Encyclopcdique derIndustrie et des Arts Industrieh. ^ The two cups from Varpelev are engraved in theAnnaler for Nordisk Oldkyndeghed, 1861, p. 305. Theone, 3^ inches high, has a lion and a bull painted on it;and the other, 2\ inches high, birds with grapes, etc. The cups from Nordrup are illustrated in NordiskeFortidsm
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 . en of thelatter an admirable illustrated article, Verre-Verrerie,has been contributed to the Dictionnaire Encyclopcdique derIndustrie et des Arts Industrieh. ^ The two cups from Varpelev are engraved in theAnnaler for Nordisk Oldkyndeghed, 1861, p. 305. Theone, 3^ inches high, has a lion and a bull painted on it;and the other, 2\ inches high, birds with grapes, etc. The cups from Nordrup are illustrated in NordiskeFortidsmitider udgione af det Kgl. Nordiske Oldskriftselskab,I. Hefte, 1890; they exceed all the other Danishexamples in the admirable drawing of the animalsdepicted upon them. In the Louvre is a small cup ofgreen transparent glass, about 3 inches in diameter, saidto have been found at Nismes ; on it figures of animalsand foliage in yellow and red are discernible.—Introd.,Slade Cat., p. xv. Plain cups of the same form andsize, and apparently about the same period, have beenfound in cists in Forfarshire.—Fro. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. viii.,, p. 136. «?>«Sa-^j;3«^j^. 4—ROMAN GLASS. SEC. IV. ROMAN. 15 (Fig. 14), and in the Kunstgewerbe Museum at Cologne (Fig. 15). Later evolutions ofstringings and trailings will be alluded to in their proper places. The identification of sites of glass-works, or even of centres of glass-working districts inthe northern parts of the Roman Empire, has always been a difficult question. Numbers ofchoice vessels have been found whose fragility would seem to forbid the supposition that they had ^^^• .iirf o„„„ 34^, ..
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