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 . st to thenumber of twenty-five, not counting privileged houses—and first became of artistic importancein the time of Frederick the Great. From most of the Upper Silesian furnaces makingwhite glass must have issued, via Prussia, a great part of the quantity of glasses whichinundated the Low Country markets after the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. Many of thesehouses ran but a short course, and the industry steadily declined from
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 . st to thenumber of twenty-five, not counting privileged houses—and first became of artistic importancein the time of Frederick the Great. From most of the Upper Silesian furnaces makingwhite glass must have issued, via Prussia, a great part of the quantity of glasses whichinundated the Low Country markets after the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. Many of thesehouses ran but a short course, and the industry steadily declined from the end of the eighteenthcentury. On account of its late establishment its history lacks the interest of other two glass-houses—Sklarka—on the Polish frontiers dating respectively from about1670 and I 750 do not call for remark. Those of Lower Silesia in the Oberlausitz are of much importance by reason of the 1 Chrysopocie, ut sup., Hs. R., 454, vellum pnge 4/. for the first time by Herr v. Czihak, SchksiscJu- Gliiscr, ut ?- Breslaucr Siadfarckiv, Neisser Lagerbuch, F. Neisse, sup., p. , 21Z, 1506-15 I S, p. 176. This document is printed. 16—BOHEMIAN GLASS, SEC. XIV. BOHEMIA, SILESIA. 77 high quality of their productions towards the end of the eighteenth century. This wasbrought about by the very fine sand near Hohenbocka, and the convenience of fuel in theforests. At Weisau, at some time after the Thirty Years War, a glass-house was foundedwhich, together with that at Schreiberhau in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stoodat the head of the Silesian glass-works. Here were made drinking-glasses of all kinds inpure white metal, cut and gilt, besides the ordinary green vessels. The Rausche furnacesare first mentioned in 1724, and those at Kolzig forty years later, one of the places wheresoda from Spain was first used in Silesia, as it had been in England by Jean Carre, as longago as in 1567. The great activity and increase which has character
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