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 . resting. No less so are the inscriptions in the dialect of Swabiaand Franconia. Glasses on which the Ages of Man are pictured extend the days of ourage two decades beyond the allotted point of labour and sorrow. The hundred yearsare divided by tens, and the three last and dismal stages of the life of man candidly inscribednimmer weiss, der Kinder spod, and gnad dir got; and of woman, wtist und erkalt,eine Marterbildt, and
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 . resting. No less so are the inscriptions in the dialect of Swabiaand Franconia. Glasses on which the Ages of Man are pictured extend the days of ourage two decades beyond the allotted point of labour and sorrow. The hundred yearsare divided by tens, and the three last and dismal stages of the life of man candidly inscribednimmer weiss, der Kinder spod, and gnad dir got; and of woman, wtist und erkalt,eine Marterbildt, and das Grab auss ftillt. The other large enamelled glass vessels, already enumerated, do not require special noticehere, but as regards the whole of them it should be stated that the earlier examples exhibitconsiderable delicacy of execution. This must have been partially owing to observation ofItalian enamelled glasses ; but if so, and such excellence being so early acquired, it is a little 1 The fullest version runs, Godt belwdt und erhalt dass zu gkkh, as on an example in the Germanisches Museumgame Hcilige Romische Reich init Sampt scinen Gliedci-n all at -^c Fig. 115. (One quarter.)
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