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 . rel. Between this sumptuous verre de parade picture is engraved on the wheel, the clouds and some and the smallest roemer that has been noticed by the details being polished. On the stem twelve sea monsters writer—namely, one 2\ inches high in the Rijks Museum and mermaids are shown in three rows; their heads are at Amsterdam—there is a wide distinction. The date all alike and stamped in relief on prunts, the bodies belong
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 . rel. Between this sumptuous verre de parade picture is engraved on the wheel, the clouds and some and the smallest roemer that has been noticed by the details being polished. On the stem twelve sea monsters writer—namely, one 2\ inches high in the Rijks Museum and mermaids are shown in three rows; their heads are at Amsterdam—there is a wide distinction. The date all alike and stamped in relief on prunts, the bodies belong- of Lady Harveys glass is just after the middle of the ing to the two lower, and the foliage surrounding the four seventeenth century. The expanded roemer, which, heads in the upper set being skilfully arranged to fill the for convenience, we also call a berkemeyer, was much field, and excellently engraved. The base of the glass anti favoured by Franz Hals, as may be seen in the pictures the cover are of silver gilt in rich Renaissance work, with of extraordinary breadth and power by that master at the hall mark of Hamburg and of a maker in that city, Haarlem. /. // ??? £y iCtZ-y-^- : wKjll •rwlf.
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