. The industrial arts in Spain. VESSELS FROM SPAIN, IX THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Kensington Museum, there are two fine specimens of glass madeat Cadalso—No. 1068, 73, a drinking vessel of white glass, theupper part in form of the Spanish vessel called bucaro, ribbedand streaked with colours; the stem pineapple shape, with remainsof gilding (this is represented in the woodcut); and No. 1082, 73,a bowl of plain glass, the lower part spirally waved, and decoratedwith scale pattein in gold and coloured dots. Both these objectsproceed from a nunnery in a village near Cadalso. GLASS. 239 Larmga s
. The industrial arts in Spain. VESSELS FROM SPAIN, IX THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Kensington Museum, there are two fine specimens of glass madeat Cadalso—No. 1068, 73, a drinking vessel of white glass, theupper part in form of the Spanish vessel called bucaro, ribbedand streaked with colours; the stem pineapple shape, with remainsof gilding (this is represented in the woodcut); and No. 1082, 73,a bowl of plain glass, the lower part spirally waved, and decoratedwith scale pattein in gold and coloured dots. Both these objectsproceed from a nunnery in a village near Cadalso. GLASS. 239 Larmga says in his Memorias, [Madrid, 1791, Vol. X., p. 53,]that * two glass ovens existed at Cadalso, which belonged to theMarchioness of Viilena; they are worked by the inhabitants ofthis town. One of the ovens has fallen into disuse from thebeginning of the present (i8th) century, and the fame of the glassmade there, formerly so renowned for its clearness and variety ofthe objects made, has declined. In examining the state of this. GLASS VASE. —SPANISH (CADALSO), I7TH CENTURY. industry during the reign of Charles II. we find how much it hadfallen off, for Dn. Antonio de Obando in 1692, undertook to re-establish it, and to make glass vessels, and window glasses as hadbeen made there formerly. It appears that 200 dozens of objectsof different kinds were sent out from there yearly. The vase,No. 2,o2)^ 73 represented in the woodcut is an example of thecoloured glass of Cadalso. Glass ovens existed from a very early period in the central R 240 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. provinces of Spain, which probably imitated from the i6th centurythe productions of Cadalso. We know from papers at theArchives of the Convent, of two of these which paid a yearly rentto the monastery of San Jeronimo de Guisando, from 1478 to1480. One of these glass works was situated at the Venta delCojo on the borders of Escalona, and the other at the Venta delos Toros de Guisando. It is evident that a glass manufactor
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