. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. ascribed to the 17thcentury; while Rummers with an independent middle-piece are theproduct of the 18th century. All three forms have been revived inlate years. The colour of the Rummer is green or yellowish-brown;for aesthetic reasons, and not because it was impossible to manufactureclear glass. The middle-piece is often divided from the cup by a ribbedband and ornamented with bosses. In later times the cup was decoratedwith cut or painted ornament (fi
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. ascribed to the 17thcentury; while Rummers with an independent middle-piece are theproduct of the 18th century. All three forms have been revived inlate years. The colour of the Rummer is green or yellowish-brown;for aesthetic reasons, and not because it was impossible to manufactureclear glass. The middle-piece is often divided from the cup by a ribbedband and ornamented with bosses. In later times the cup was decoratedwith cut or painted ornament (figs. 5, and 6). Such modernexamples, as Rummers with white feet and pink cups, are aberrationsof taste. The Rummer is generally of moderate size; but examples oflarge size are sometimes met-with. Plate 206. The Rummer. 1—4. Older forms, (Friedrich). 5—6, White and light-green, engraved ornaments, Bavarian Ge-werbemuseum, Nuremberg, (Friedrich). 7—8. Modem copies. 9. Old form, without foot, (Friedrich). 10—11. Modem forms. 12. Wooden vessel resembling a Rummer, lacquered black, from Borneo, United collections, Carlsruhe. 350 Plate 206. TheEomer or Rummer. VASES. 351
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