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 . tenbearing the owner s initials on a rectangular or oval panel, as in an example in Hawkinss collection (Fig. 326). These somewhat gave way before the end ofthe century to moulded and fluted goblets, large and small, of some merit,engraved with ribbons and festoons after the Adams fashion, and often in the authors collection exemplify these (Figs. 327, 328). Such vessels In the Saffron Walden Museu
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 . tenbearing the owner s initials on a rectangular or oval panel, as in an example in Hawkinss collection (Fig. 326). These somewhat gave way before the end ofthe century to moulded and fluted goblets, large and small, of some merit,engraved with ribbons and festoons after the Adams fashion, and often in the authors collection exemplify these (Figs. 327, 328). Such vessels In the Saffron Walden Museum is a vastglass goblet, 13 inches high, made about 1820for Miles Rust, of the Greyhound Inn at Svvaffham,who died in 1844, aged eighty-seven. It musthave served as a punch bowl. It is engraved allover with hunting, coursing, and shooting scenes,and a representation of a famous cricket match between Swaffham and Hingham. A view ofNorwich Castle, and Swaffliam windmill, a well-known local beacon, appear in the landscape. Thismonster glass was probably made at Lynn, a portwhich, with Alum Bay, in the Isle of Wight, haslong furnished silica for glass-making. See p. >-«frs 53—ENGLISH GLASS. CHAP. XXII. GROUP XIV. NELSON GLASSES. 329
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