. Glass. tic form of wine-glass that has beendeveloped in modern times—apart, that is, from thestemmed glass of Italian origin, about which there willbe a good deal to say in a future chapter. The typicalroemer—for this of course is the glass of which I amspeaking—consists of three parts : a bowl of ovoid outline,shaped like the flower of a tulip ; a hollow cylindricalstem, studded with mulberry-like prunts (often flattenedout to discs); and a hollow conical foot, formed by coilinga rope of glass round a core of wood (Plate xxxvii.).Here we have the roemer in the fully developed form ofthe sev
. Glass. tic form of wine-glass that has beendeveloped in modern times—apart, that is, from thestemmed glass of Italian origin, about which there willbe a good deal to say in a future chapter. The typicalroemer—for this of course is the glass of which I amspeaking—consists of three parts : a bowl of ovoid outline,shaped like the flower of a tulip ; a hollow cylindricalstem, studded with mulberry-like prunts (often flattenedout to discs); and a hollow conical foot, formed by coilinga rope of glass round a core of wood (Plate xxxvii.).Here we have the roemer in the fully developed form ofthe seventeenth century, as we see it in fact in the still-life pictures of the Dutch painters of the time, or again—this time in actual use—in the marksmens banquets{schiittersmaaltyd) of Van der Heist and Frans the earlier forms, however, the foot is either entirelymissing or is present only as a zig-zag or toothed ringof glass applied to the base of the stem. In these early254 PLATE . ROEMEK Of CKRMAN (IRKEN CLASSAljoui- i6co, THE GREEN GLASS OF GERMANY examples again the broad hollow stem is not dividedfrom the bowl by a diaphragm of glass, but forms an in-tegral part of the cup.^ On the other hand, before the endof the seventeenth century the cylindrical stem was moreand more encroached upon by the spun-foot, while thecoiled threading with which in earlier days the conicalfoot was entirely built up was, in late examples, twistedround a glass support so as to become a mere ornament ^(Czihak, ScJdesische Gldser, pp. 75 seq., and Hartshorne,English Glasses, pp. 66 seq^. Of the Rhenish green glass, the only other formsthat I shall mention are the upright barrel-shaped beakercovered with prunts of various forms, in which theMai-trank, a kind of cup, was brewed, and finally theKratitstnmk or cabbage-stalk, a tall cylindrical glassbristling with formidable thorny prunts. Mathesius,who is responsible for the picturesque name, already inthe seventeenth cent
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