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 . Fig. 249. (One third.) Fig. 250. (One third.) Fio. 251. (One third.) Fig. 252. (One third.) Fig. 253. (One third.) mediaeval woodwork and ecclesiastical embroidery (Fig. 250). But theglasses tended to become smaller, and the cutting of the stems loose, shallow,and inartistic as the century advanced to its end ; ^ some of the latest having thebowls decorated with festoons like much of the china of the time (Fig. 251), or 1
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 . Fig. 249. (One third.) Fig. 250. (One third.) Fio. 251. (One third.) Fig. 252. (One third.) Fig. 253. (One third.) mediaeval woodwork and ecclesiastical embroidery (Fig. 250). But theglasses tended to become smaller, and the cutting of the stems loose, shallow,and inartistic as the century advanced to its end ; ^ some of the latest having thebowls decorated with festoons like much of the china of the time (Fig. 251), or 1 A glass of the usual drawn form, engraved cinque-foil, and beneath it is written with a diamond with a flower and with a knopped and hexagonally- point: Mary Dovaston 1801, and M D in a cypher, cut stem, is in the possession of Mr. F. G. Bullcr The date exactly accords with that of the The edge of the foot is shaped into a. 48.—ENGLISH GLASS. CHAP. XVIII. GROUP X. CHAMPAGNE GLASSES. 293 with borders of dead stars and polished indents, the former often touched withoil-gilding (Figs. 252, 253). Outlines of all these are drawn for conveniencefrom the authors collection. They are not uncommon. In the cut wine-glasses of the extreme end of the century the facets developed into long flutes,and so the old ogee glasses lapsed into the respectable port and whiteglasses of our grandfathers. The cut glasses with heavy square feet can neverhave been seriously intended for table use at the end of the century whenthey appear. They will therefore be classified among the later glasses forpunch and grog. Many large services of richly-cut glass—such as the Lion andthe Vine services at Windsor Castle, of which a few pieces only now remain—fault-less both as to fire and colour, were produced at great cost in the last yearsof the last century. The noble appearance which they made upon the velvetyoil-polished surfaces o
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