. The industrial arts in Spain. GLASS VASE.—SPANISH, i6tH CENTURY. building itself is decorated with the escutcheon of the family ofHernando de Zafra, one of the secretaries of Queen Isabel, latein the 15th century, who must have purchased it with other landswhich he posses:ed there, towards the year 1492. A gallery, onemile long, which exists at the entrance of the town from whencethe sand has been extracted for this manufacture, gives an idea GLASS. 233 of the antiquity of this industry in this particular locaHty. It hasbeen calculated that about two tons of sand were used at theseglass work
. The industrial arts in Spain. GLASS VASE.—SPANISH, i6tH CENTURY. building itself is decorated with the escutcheon of the family ofHernando de Zafra, one of the secretaries of Queen Isabel, latein the 15th century, who must have purchased it with other landswhich he posses:ed there, towards the year 1492. A gallery, onemile long, which exists at the entrance of the town from whencethe sand has been extracted for this manufacture, gives an idea GLASS. 233 of the antiquity of this industry in this particular locaHty. It hasbeen calculated that about two tons of sand were used at theseglass works every month. At Royo Molino, in the province ofJaen, a very ancient building still exists, now half in ruins, whichhas been used until very lately as a glass factory. At Maria, inthe province of Almeria, several glass manufactories have GLASS PILGRIMS BOTTLE.—SPANISH, I7TH CENTURY, The oldest, it is believed, was about two miles from the town, andis called traditionally del Campo, but I have not found mentionof it in any document. Three glass ovens existed inside thetown : one was established by Vicente Botia, towards the year1750, which lasted until 1790. Juan Martinez established atabout this period an industry of a similar kind near the formerone, which continued to work until 1854. The same green glasshas been constantly made in these localities, the same forms have 234 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. been copied, the only difference between the older and moremodern specimens consisting in the coarser and heavier qualityof the glass. In treating of the glass manufactures in Spain, where Italianmodels were imitated to a very great extent, we find very fewallusions in contemporary authors of the Middle Ages ; it may bebecause glass vessels were chiefly used with wooden and potteryutensils by the poorer classes, and metal
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