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 . tries, in support of the well-recorded fact that English glasses were imported there shortly after 1713. Ifany cut glasses were sent they appear to have become very scarce, or to havevanished in the Provinces, as in England, and, as a matter of fact, there is ahiatus both of information and of examples here as well as there. But we do know that a change of shape had soon come about, and that theEnglish cut glasses, of whic
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 . tries, in support of the well-recorded fact that English glasses were imported there shortly after 1713. Ifany cut glasses were sent they appear to have become very scarce, or to havevanished in the Provinces, as in England, and, as a matter of fact, there is ahiatus both of information and of examples here as well as there. But we do know that a change of shape had soon come about, and that theEnglish cut glasses, of which the decorative character was quite unsuited to thoseof the bell shape, soon fell into the form of the ogee series, and so continued tothe end of their course, running out at last in the early years of the presentcentury. Welcome and highly-interesting dated examples are provided by part of aset of large punch glasses, and two capacious glass bowls, ii^ inches in diameterand 6^ inches high, in the possession of Captain Stansfeld, made for his ancestor,George Stansfeld of Field House, Sowerby, to commemorate the passing of the See Introductory Notices, p. 41. - 47—ENGLISH GLASS. CHAP. XVIII. GROUP IX. CUT AND ENGRAVED GLASSES. 291 Calder and Hebble Navigation Act, for making navigable the River Calder, fromits junction with the Aire, to Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, a distance of tvventy-t\\0 miles—a work of great importance at the time, and which was surveyed andplanned by Smeaton. It forms the connecting-link between the Aire and CalderNavigation from Wakefield to the Aire, and the Rochdale Canal which runs fromSowerby Bridge to the Duke of Bridgewaters Canal at Manchester, whichterminates at Runcorn in the tideway of the Mersey. The nine existing glassesare all engraved alike, and bear the inscription—up to sowerby bridge 1758,the Stansfeld crest, flowers, and an anchor and a golden fleece, tokens of hope andprosperity (Fig. 245). The punch-bowls are covered wit
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