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 . vagant suggestion that the vase may have been made and painted byorder of Chancellor Alcock, for presentation to the King at the time the Malvernwindows were set up. It is to be noted that the King wears in his portraiton the vase hys ryghtefull imperiall crowne, the arched crown whichfirst appears on the seal of Edward IV., and which is spoken of by Thomas ^ The Luck of Burrcll Green lacks the essentialquality of Lucks, n
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 . vagant suggestion that the vase may have been made and painted byorder of Chancellor Alcock, for presentation to the King at the time the Malvernwindows were set up. It is to be noted that the King wears in his portraiton the vase hys ryghtefull imperiall crowne, the arched crown whichfirst appears on the seal of Edward IV., and which is spoken of by Thomas ^ The Luck of Burrcll Green lacks the essentialquality of Lucks, namely, fragility. It is a brasscharger, i6 inches in diameter, of late character, inscribed round the central wrythen flutes in black or late Gothic letters— JHarg ilotijrr of Scsus Safaiour of iHcit. This block letters IF THIS DISH BE SOLD OR GIEN, FARE-WELL THE LUCK OF BURRELL GREEN. Such a travestieof picturesque antiquity tends to shake the faith inluck altogether. - MSS. Douce, 219 and 311, Bodleian. ^ Archaeological Journal vol. xxii. p. 302. again circumscribed by the words in modern Paper by E. Oldfield. 142 OLD ENGLISH GLASSES. CHAP. Fig. 154. (One third. Habington in his description of the window in the time of Elizabeth—whenall the figures were still in existence—as being worn both by the King and theOueen. Accuracy of likeness is not to be expected in such a medium as painted glass, but the face on the vase is, as usual inthe authentic portraits of Edward IV., smooth andbeardless, the eyes dark, and the hair long and flowing,as distinguished from the shorter and clubbed hair ofHenry time (Fig. 154).^ In the inventory of the effects of the Countess ofRichmond — the venerable Margaret—who died in1509, the item of glassery basons Thissounds like Venetian work. In the list of the goods ofDame Agnes Hungerford, executed for murder at Tyburnin 1523, a presse full of glasses with waters in themis mentioned.^ These were proba
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