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 . f these frail antiquities appears to extend from the endof the sixth to the early part of the tenth century. A few of thetall trumpet glasses, whose form was doubtless derived from drinking-horns, have slight feet or bases, recalling, so far, their late Romanprototypes, but these supports tend to the simple knob left on thebottom by the maker before he released his work from the pontil;they have no significance as feet to
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 . f these frail antiquities appears to extend from the endof the sixth to the early part of the tenth century. A few of thetall trumpet glasses, whose form was doubtless derived from drinking-horns, have slight feet or bases, recalling, so far, their late Romanprototypes, but these supports tend to the simple knob left on thebottom by the maker before he released his work from the pontil;they have no significance as feet to stand on. In some rare in-stances the actual curved bugle-horn shape is retained. There is abeautiful example in the British Museum, stringed, looped, and fluted,from Bingerbriick, near With the exception of Mr. J. Curies stringed and flutedbeaker from Gotland (Fig. 31), the glasses here illustrated were found in Germany. 1 A. Evans, Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum, baden, Mayence, Cologne (Wallraf Richartz), Brussels,Archaeologia, vol. xlviii. p. 75. and Munich. There are several in the British Museum. ^ Examples are preserved in the Museums at Wies-. FlG. 20. (One half.) ^f / II 6—MEROVINGIAN GLASS. SEC. vn. MEROVINGIAN. 23 The entire absence, in all other examples and varieties of this devious class of drinking-vessels, of any base upon which the object could be supported, has been held to indicate a
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