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 . omparing a large number of examples, we are now confronted by the great drawback of only meeting with few andscattered objects, rude or imperfect inmanufacture and difficult to date, andgenerally more so still to localise. Atwo-handled vase, resembling thosethat may be seen on Christian sarco-phagi, intended to represent chalices,is probably of the fifth or sixth century ;it has much interest from the earlyexample it gives
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 . omparing a large number of examples, we are now confronted by the great drawback of only meeting with few andscattered objects, rude or imperfect inmanufacture and difficult to date, andgenerally more so still to localise. Atwo-handled vase, resembling thosethat may be seen on Christian sarco-phagi, intended to represent chalices,is probably of the fifth or sixth century ;it has much interest from the earlyexample it gives of the ribbed and upperfolded foot; and perhaps some of the ill-made heavily trailed cups belong to this period (, 17). The collateral progress of window-glass, from its scanty use in the first century,in the form of small rough cast plates almost impervious to light, to its employment fromthe seventh—perhaps earlier—to the ninth century, as a coloured medium for the transmissionof light, need merely be alluded to here ; but the latter time furnishes an approximate datefor a fresh point of departure in a vitreous art that had a brilliant future before
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