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 . the Orient, Byzantium, Bohemia, and Germany havingbeen severally suggested as the source of the objects, and even a possible date so late as 1370proposed. Their peculiarities place them in a distinct class and they have to be judgedaccordingly, but we must think that the place of their manufacture, if not actually atByzantium, was at least strongly under the influence of Byzantine art. The Hedwig glasses are very thick, ge
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 . the Orient, Byzantium, Bohemia, and Germany havingbeen severally suggested as the source of the objects, and even a possible date so late as 1370proposed. Their peculiarities place them in a distinct class and they have to be judgedaccordingly, but we must think that the place of their manufacture, if not actually atByzantium, was at least strongly under the influence of Byzantine art. The Hedwig glasses are very thick, generally more than a quarter of an inch, dark incolour, with many bubbles, and deeply cut on the wheel, so that the figures stand out in reliefThere is a marked resemblance between them, indicating not only one manufactory, butsuggesting the same artist at the wheel, and about the same date for the whole series. Under a 1 Seep. 21. Illustrated as in following ;w/^. 5 Abbildungen; and Schksische G/aser, s. 184, with the ^ Zeitschrift fiir ChristUche Kiiiist, III. Jahrgang, Heft same illustrations, edit. 1891. II, s. 329, 1890; Die IJcdzvigsglaser, niit Lichtdriick und. GLASS. SEC. XIII. THE HED WIG GLASSES. 71 Byzantine ascription the Hedwig glasses would have been valued objects passing to NorthernEurope along the ancient trade route from Byzantium through Hungary and Bohemia, andas such naturally dedicated to a revered patron saint, and deposited in great churches. Thusat least the examples existing in the cathedrals of Cracow, Breslau, and Halberstadt wouldbe properly accounted for, and quite apart from the question of glass vessels of Damascusof a very different character. These may have been brought by German crusaders or bypilgrims from the Holy Land, or have come as prized articles of trade by way of Veniceor Genoa, and are generally later in date than the Hedwig glasses proper. The Amsterdam example gives a capital type of the whole series, being en
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