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 . Fig. 301. (One third.) Fig. 302. (One third.) Fig. (One third.) Fig. 304. (One third.) FRIENDS, is in the possession of the Dowager Lady Williams Wynn. It isprobably a Jacobite glass (Plate 52, 1.) (2) A glass with a straight-sided and flutedbowl, with a funnel-shaped interior of much solidity, in the authors cabinet,weighing 9^ ounces, with an opaque-twisted stem of the same character as thefirst (Plate 52, 2). (3) An opa
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 . Fig. 301. (One third.) Fig. 302. (One third.) Fig. (One third.) Fig. 304. (One third.) FRIENDS, is in the possession of the Dowager Lady Williams Wynn. It isprobably a Jacobite glass (Plate 52, 1.) (2) A glass with a straight-sided and flutedbowl, with a funnel-shaped interior of much solidity, in the authors cabinet,weighing 9^ ounces, with an opaque-twisted stem of the same character as thefirst (Plate 52, 2). (3) An opaque-twisted stemmed glass, with a plain foot andthe bowl engraved with a bird perched upon a con\entional flower, in the possession Sec p. 52—ENGLISH GLASS. CHAP. XXI. GROUP XIII. STRONG AND CORDIAL WATERS GLASSES. 321 of Mrs. Fitz-Patrick (Fig. 299). (4) A glass of the drawn form, with a delicate wrythen fluted bowl, with a border of conventional flowers, and a brilliant air-twisted stem, in the collection of Mr. Singer (Fig. 300); and (5), a glass with afestooned bowl, and a rich opaque-twisted stem, in the authors hands (Fig. 301).All these examples are, of course, English work, dating from about 1740 to1780, nothing like them having been made on the Continent. They holdvery little, some of them even less than the deux doigts alluded to byBeranger in Ala Graiuf Mere. Mr. R. Day of Cork is the appreciative ownerof three others nearly resembling No. 3, two with white twisted stems, and oneplain, and all engraved with flowers and, no doubt, deriving like the rest froma glass-house at Bristol, as did other glass vessels to which attention has alreadybeen directed.^ Here may also be mentioned, for want of a better place,
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