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 . GLASS-FAQON DANGLETERRE. CHAP. XII. JOHN GREEXE, GLASS-SELLER. 239 such as are set forth in Greenes drawings, but it is possible that they are laterthan his time. The sloping sides suggest this doubt.^ The value of Greenes drawings as dated representations of the generality ofthe glasses used in England during the last quarter of the seventeenth century,together with their verification by existing examples, wi
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 . GLASS-FAQON DANGLETERRE. CHAP. XII. JOHN GREEXE, GLASS-SELLER. 239 such as are set forth in Greenes drawings, but it is possible that they are laterthan his time. The sloping sides suggest this doubt.^ The value of Greenes drawings as dated representations of the generality ofthe glasses used in England during the last quarter of the seventeenth century,together with their verification by existing examples, will be obvious to artists,collectors, and other persons interested in the minor English arts. John Greene, citizen and glass-seller in the Poultry, appears to have beenconnected with the glass business all his life.^ An active member of the GlassSellers Company, he was constituted an Assistant in the Charter of 1664, andelected one of the Wardens in 1677 ; he was Treasurer of the Feast of the Sonsof the Clergy in 1689. Beyond these facts we know no more of him and hiscommercial dealings and probity than is revealed by his Letters, and thePapers ^ which have been prese
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