. American homes and gardens. ughtout the Royal Oakglass, a square-shaped goblet elab-orately decoratedwith a diamond pointon the bowl. Thedecorations of theseglasses show CharlesII. and his Queen, anoak tree which bore amedallion of the kind,Collection of Mrs. William West a scroll on which was inscribed The Royal Oak,and also the time of itsmake, 1663. Differing fromthe metal of today, this wasa pale greenish brown incolor, very thin and delicate,and devoid of brilliancy. Very peculiar glass mak-ing ideas were carried out inblown glass, which wasshaped very elaborately intoships with widespr
. American homes and gardens. ughtout the Royal Oakglass, a square-shaped goblet elab-orately decoratedwith a diamond pointon the bowl. Thedecorations of theseglasses show CharlesII. and his Queen, anoak tree which bore amedallion of the kind,Collection of Mrs. William West a scroll on which was inscribed The Royal Oak,and also the time of itsmake, 1663. Differing fromthe metal of today, this wasa pale greenish brown incolor, very thin and delicate,and devoid of brilliancy. Very peculiar glass mak-ing ideas were carried out inblown glass, which wasshaped very elaborately intoships with widespread sails—floral designs, and manyother decorations whichwere worn by ladies ofquality on their were of course ex-pensive and were consid-dered exceedingly fash-ionable, the combinationof powdered hair andglass head-dress beingvery effective. The glasses of thatperiod could well be di-vided into five groupsand might be supple-mented by two maingroups, including thefiner and the coarser ex-amples. The latter were.
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