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 . ription between laurel wreaths: 1893. AABE THN NEIKHN. The chariot race glasses were ^ Padre Garrucci, Vitri Orna/i de Figure in Oro. common wares bought by admirers of the athletes. In Roma, 1858. the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries glasses were con- ^ It may be convenient to mention here the importanttended for at Venice as prizes in gondola races. Such glass cup known as the Vase of Podgorica, engraved witha challen
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 . ription between laurel wreaths: 1893. AABE THN NEIKHN. The chariot race glasses were ^ Padre Garrucci, Vitri Orna/i de Figure in Oro. common wares bought by admirers of the athletes. In Roma, 1858. the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries glasses were con- ^ It may be convenient to mention here the importanttended for at Venice as prizes in gondola races. Such glass cup known as the Vase of Podgorica, engraved witha challenge glass, \o\ inches high, about 1600, with a scenes from the Old Testament by the hand of a Romano-cover having the following inscription etched upon it Christian. This is now in the Mus^e Basilewski in Paris;with a diamond point—REMIS STERILIS DVDVM it has been described and illustrated by the Cav. di RossiPAVLVS ARTAQ—is in the appreciative hands of in the Bulktino di Archeohgia Crisfiano, 1877, p. J. Seymour Lucas, See A Evans, Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum, 2 H. Schuermans (Hon. ), Premier President Archacologia, vol. xlviii. p. 2—ROMAN GLASS. » tSS^JU. ^V
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