. Glass. above divisions, may well be mentioned here. On onewe see an elaborate hunting scene: in the centre the netis spread and the game is being driven in by dogs andbeaters (Plate xli.). On the other is a strangely cruderepresentation of the Last Supper, in the arrangement ofwhich, however, Leonardos famous design may still betraced. Before treating of the big glasses painted at Dresdenand of those of the South German school, I may wellsay something of the second class of cylindrical vessels, 1 Herr von Czihak mentions that he has seen in the museum of Freiberg, inSaxony, a covered humpen,
. Glass. above divisions, may well be mentioned here. On onewe see an elaborate hunting scene: in the centre the netis spread and the game is being driven in by dogs andbeaters (Plate xli.). On the other is a strangely cruderepresentation of the Last Supper, in the arrangement ofwhich, however, Leonardos famous design may still betraced. Before treating of the big glasses painted at Dresdenand of those of the South German school, I may wellsay something of the second class of cylindrical vessels, 1 Herr von Czihak mentions that he has seen in the museum of Freiberg, inSaxony, a covered humpen, painted in oil-colours, protected apparently with somekind of lacquer. The glass is dark green, and the Gothic character both of themetal cover and of the painting points to a date not later than 1500. The subject,according to a quaint inscription, has relation to Eneaspius der Babst (the PopePius II., 1458-1464), and to the ^Roemischer Kaiser Friderich der dritt (SchlesisckeGldser, p. loi).268 PLATE XLI. GERMAN GLASS. HUMPP:N. ENAMELLED WITH HUNTING SCENES ENAMELLED GERMAN GLASS of which the most important sub-division is formed bythe pass-glaser, the tall narrow beakers divided bystringings of glass or by enamelled rings into a seriesof zones. These glasses played an important part in thedrinking contests of the time. It would seem—to judgefrom the lengthy verses, commencing and ending in allcases with the word vivat, found on many of them—thatit was required of the drinker to swallow at one draughtthe liquid contents of each zone, neither more nor other times the drinking was apparently regulated bythe dealing of cards. There is a remarkable example ofthe typical pass-glas at South Kensington : it is dividedinto twelve zones by quilled threadings of glass. Thesimple decoration of hearts, roses, and wreaths, as wellas the long inscription, is painted in white enamel. A somewhat later group of enamelled glasses maybe traced to Dresden, to the Hof-kellere
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