. Glass. a magnificent roemer, of verydark glass, with prunted stem and threaded foot, halffilled with Rhenish wine.^ But if we turn again tothe Flemish painters of this later time, we find thatwhen in rich interiors they introduce specimens of glassamong other objets de vertti, this glass is always of aVenetian type. There is one such painter, a followerof Jan Brueghel apparently, who loves to introduceamong a wealth of plate and jewellery, piled on tablesand shelves and even on the floor, the most elaboratespecimens of the fine cristallo of Venice, proving in whatesteem this glass was then h
. Glass. a magnificent roemer, of verydark glass, with prunted stem and threaded foot, halffilled with Rhenish wine.^ But if we turn again tothe Flemish painters of this later time, we find thatwhen in rich interiors they introduce specimens of glassamong other objets de vertti, this glass is always of aVenetian type. There is one such painter, a followerof Jan Brueghel apparently, who loves to introduceamong a wealth of plate and jewellery, piled on tablesand shelves and even on the floor, the most elaboratespecimens of the fine cristallo of Venice, proving in whatesteem this glass was then held in the Spanish Nether-lands. I might give many further examples, but enoughhas been said to show that as in the case of porcelain, offayence and of plate, so for the history of glass, a mineof information may be found in the genre and otherpictures of the Netherlandish school. 1 I do not know why this essentially Teutonic form is described in the ofBcialcatalogue as a Venetian green glass goblet. 244.
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