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 . the often shapeless June I 7 12, are given in Swifts Four Last Years of the Queen. productions of the previous centuries. SEC. IX. THE LOW COUNTRIES. 41 into Liege. Before 1757 they gave up crystal glass-making there, but Nizet, who hadstarted a furnace at Liege in 1710, continued to carry it on with some success. From themiddle of the century Zoude of Namur, a pushing, vulgar, and boastful glass-nuiker, was adetermined op
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 . the often shapeless June I 7 12, are given in Swifts Four Last Years of the Queen. productions of the previous centuries. SEC. IX. THE LOW COUNTRIES. 41 into Liege. Before 1757 they gave up crystal glass-making there, but Nizet, who hadstarted a furnace at Liege in 1710, continued to carry it on with some success. From themiddle of the century Zoude of Namur, a pushing, vulgar, and boastful glass-nuiker, was adetermined opponent of the Liege works. He produced a great quantity of glass of all kinds including Venetian, long after that fashion had passed away in the Low Countries— and, of course, the English Flint Glass. Suiting his productions specially to the taste of thetime, he supplied Brussels, Louvain, Antwerp, Mechlin, Mons, Ghent, Tournai, and was too well established to be shaken by Zoude. Immediately after the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, a large number of merchants of Bohemianelass established themselves in the Low Countries. Drawing their supplies from warehouses.
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