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 . hown on the necks of some vessels, and thetentative or fuller treatment in the same style ofthe bodies of others, was developed the peculiar plain or ribbed trailings, in opaque sketchylines, on certain curious glass vases, jugs, and drinking-cups. Those that have been foundas far north as at Nordrup in Seeland, Denmark, are of the early part of the fourth century(Figs. II, 12, 13). It is probable that these particular foo
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 . hown on the necks of some vessels, and thetentative or fuller treatment in the same style ofthe bodies of others, was developed the peculiar plain or ribbed trailings, in opaque sketchylines, on certain curious glass vases, jugs, and drinking-cups. Those that have been foundas far north as at Nordrup in Seeland, Denmark, are of the early part of the fourth century(Figs. II, 12, 13). It is probable that these particular footed cups are the direct Romanancestors of some of the footless Anglo-Saxon tumblers which will be spoken of later and conditions tend to point to the Rhine-land generally, possibly to Colognein particular, where several examples have been found, as one of the sources of the latter vessels ;and there may be some reason for thinking that Gaul—where were, perhaps, the aptest pupilsof the Roman glass-workers—supplied a certain amount of such glass to Britain in Romantimes. Examples of trailed jugs are preserved in the Germanisches Museum at Nuremberg. Fig. 9. (Full size.) The Decay of Glass has been fully and ably treatedof by the late Dr. J. Fowler in the Archaeologia, vol. 65; it has also been somewhat touched upon byM. M. Appert et : Sur les devitrificationsdes verres ordinaires du commerce. From the pen of thelatter an admirable illustrated article, Verre-Verrerie,has been contributed to the Dictionnaire Encyclopcdique derIndustrie et des Arts Industrieh. ^ The two cups from Varpelev are engraved in theAnnaler for Nordisk Oldkyndeghed, 1861, p. 305. Theone, 3^ inches high, has a lion and a bull painted on it;and the other, 2\ inches high, birds with grapes, etc. The cups from Nordrup are illustrated in NordiskeFortidsmitider udgione af det Kgl. Nordiske Oldskriftselskab,I. Hefte, 1890; they exceed all the other Danishexamples in the admira
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