. Glass. ght other-wise be led to infer—namely, that the origin of theenamelling that we find on the beakers of the Germanrenaissance must be sought, not in the fifteenth andearly sixteenth century enamelled glass of Venice, butrather in the new method of colouring window-glassthat was at this time spreading all over Germany. Irefer to the highly finished pictures, painted in enamelcolours on white glass and subsequently burned in,which were now replacing, especially for secular use, thetrue lead-mounted stained glass of the old churchwindows. It was an easy step to apply this method ofdecorat
. Glass. ght other-wise be led to infer—namely, that the origin of theenamelling that we find on the beakers of the Germanrenaissance must be sought, not in the fifteenth andearly sixteenth century enamelled glass of Venice, butrather in the new method of colouring window-glassthat was at this time spreading all over Germany. Irefer to the highly finished pictures, painted in enamelcolours on white glass and subsequently burned in,which were now replacing, especially for secular use, thetrue lead-mounted stained glass of the old churchwindows. It was an easy step to apply this method ofdecoration to the cylindrical surfaces of the great tankardsand goblets from which the German people drank theirbeer. Now it is not in Northern or Central Germanythat we find the best specimens of these enamelledquarries. The finest examples come from the south,from Nuremberg, from Swabia, and above all from ^ A separate muffle-stove for this purpose was, it would thus appear, not yetavailable. 264 PLATE XXXIX.
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