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 . ater number of the rose-engraved glasses were made andengraved at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The remarkable similarity of all the roses, aswell as the additional details on the glasses of the Jacobite citlte, cannot beaccidental. This points to a common source of production, and it seems morelikely, and reasonable, that these semi-seditious, or openly contumacious objects,were made in glass-works removed from the immediate scrutin
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 . ater number of the rose-engraved glasses were made andengraved at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The remarkable similarity of all the roses, aswell as the additional details on the glasses of the Jacobite citlte, cannot beaccidental. This points to a common source of production, and it seems morelikely, and reasonable, that these semi-seditious, or openly contumacious objects,were made in glass-works removed from the immediate scrutiny of the Govern-ment, and thus convenient for acquisition both by Scotland and the most disaffecteddistricts of England and Wales, than that they were fashioned in the neighbour-hood of Stourbridge or in London. Bristol is improbable, because the bettersorts of glasses made there were those with opaque-twisted stems, which arenot attributes of Jacobite glasses, rather than those with air-twisted standards,which belong generally to the earlier half of the century. But it is possiblethat some few drawn air-stemmed Jacobite glasses were made at Bristol after See p. sR£v;?
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