. The industrial arts in Spain. na, and was compared in a similar manner to theVenetian. The unknown author of El Crotalon, published bythe Spanish Bibliophiles, from a rare MS., in 1871, writing in thetime of the Emperor Charles V., mentions the fine glass 238 SFANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. made at Cadalso. Marineus SIculus also writes in 1517 in hisDe las Cosas Memorables de Espana, [Alcala de Henares, 1539,foL, Vol. I.,] that * Glass was made in several towns of Castille,the most important of them being Cadalso, which supplied thewhole kingdom. It would appear therefore that this glass manu-factor
. The industrial arts in Spain. na, and was compared in a similar manner to theVenetian. The unknown author of El Crotalon, published bythe Spanish Bibliophiles, from a rare MS., in 1871, writing in thetime of the Emperor Charles V., mentions the fine glass 238 SFANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. made at Cadalso. Marineus SIculus also writes in 1517 in hisDe las Cosas Memorables de Espana, [Alcala de Henares, 1539,foL, Vol. I.,] that * Glass was made in several towns of Castille,the most important of them being Cadalso, which supplied thewhole kingdom. It would appear therefore that this glass manu-factory was already established in that locality in the i6th century,and we frequently meet with allusions to the excellence of itsproductions in contemporary authors. The town itself has con-tinually been called Cadalso de los vidrios. Mendez Silva inhis Poblacion general de Espana, [Madrid, 1645, P- 4°?] says: They make in three glass ovens fine glass of beautiful coloursand forms, which can compete with the Venetian. At the South. GLASS VESSELS FROM SPAIN, IX THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Kensington Museum, there are two fine specimens of glass madeat Cadalso—No. 1068, 73, a drinking vessel of white glass, theupper part in form of the Spanish vessel called bucaro, ribbedand streaked with colours; the stem pineapple shape, with remainsof gilding (this is represented in the woodcut); and No. 1082, 73,a bowl of plain glass, the lower part spirally waved, and decoratedwith scale pattein in gold and coloured dots. Both these objectsproceed from a nunnery in a village near Cadalso. GLASS. 239 Larmga says in his Memorias, [Madrid, 1791, Vol. X., p. 53,]that * two glass ovens existed at Cadalso, which belonged to theMarchioness of Viilena; they are worked by the inhabitants ofthis town. One of the ovens has fallen into disuse from thebeginning of the present (i8th) century, and the fame of the glassmade there, formerly so renowned for its clearness and variety ofthe objects made, has de
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