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 . 4—ROMAN GLASS. SEC. IV. ROMAN. 15 (Fig. 14), and in the Kunstgewerbe Museum at Cologne (Fig. 15). Later evolutions ofstringings and trailings will be alluded to in their proper places. The identification of sites of glass-works, or even of centres of glass-working districts inthe northern parts of the Roman Empire, has always been a difficult question. Numbers ofchoice vessels have been found whose fragility would seem to
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 . 4—ROMAN GLASS. SEC. IV. ROMAN. 15 (Fig. 14), and in the Kunstgewerbe Museum at Cologne (Fig. 15). Later evolutions ofstringings and trailings will be alluded to in their proper places. The identification of sites of glass-works, or even of centres of glass-working districts inthe northern parts of the Roman Empire, has always been a difficult question. Numbers ofchoice vessels have been found whose fragility would seem to forbid the supposition that they had ^^^• .iirf o„„„ 34^, ... Fig. 10. (One half. been transported from any great distance, did we not know to what extent at least the bettersorts of Roman glass objects were exported from Rome to remote parts of the Empire. Butwith the vast quantity of glass of the commoner kind such exportation would have been im-possible. The glass vessels found in tombs and graves throughout the Roman dominionsbear a most remarkable resemblance to each other ; traditional uses would have caused tradi-tional forms, and it appears that the fact must be accepted that they were copied from Romanexamples by provincial glass-makers. It may be remembered that glass is not a difficult thing to
Size: 3083px × 811px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectglassmanufacture
