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 . nerary vase, with its inevitable broad reeded handle or handles, which no one so well as a Roman glass-maker knew how to put on ; the elegant vessels for libations ; the minute unguentaria, long the lachrymatories of romantic dilettanti; and occasionally the cherished personal cup,—fragile relics which happy accidents, the ploughshare, or sagacious and systematic ex-cavations have disclosed on numberless sites of Roman gra
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 . nerary vase, with its inevitable broad reeded handle or handles, which no one so well as a Roman glass-maker knew how to put on ; the elegant vessels for libations ; the minute unguentaria, long the lachrymatories of romantic dilettanti; and occasionally the cherished personal cup,—fragile relics which happy accidents, the ploughshare, or sagacious and systematic ex-cavations have disclosed on numberless sites of Roman graves in Britain. Or we may take the villas, the stations on Hadrians great Barrier, or our buried cities, and find that the dwelling-places of those living so long ago render up the same rigid account, but in a much more fragmentary state, as the last lodgings of our ancient masters. We may compare the whole of these remains with the same frail antiquities which like researches have revealed in Gaul, to the enrichment of such notable collections as the museums of Avignon, Lyons, or Boulogne. Again, travelling further, and skirting the shores of the Mediterranean, we. Fig. 15. (One half.) SEC. IV. ROMAN. ly may touch and excavate almost at any point between Syria and the Pillars of Hercules, examinethe spoils from Herculaneum and Pompeii, the extraordinary collection of glass vessels inthe Museo Nazionale at Naples, dating from before the irruption of 79 , or study theteeming soil of Rome itself—to find everywhere the same wonderfully precise correspondence,the same unity of direction, the same steadfast art record in the same most fragile ofmaterials, the forms and objects necessarily qualified only by the exigences of domestic orfuneral use, and to a slight extent by local conditions. And as it was with the householdand funeral glass, so it was, naturally in a more marked degree, with respect to the bestkinds of coloured or mosaic glass, made, doubtless, as has been sai
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