Old English Glasses An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England From Early
Old English Glasses An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England From Early
Albert Hartshorne
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CHAPTER IV. ENGLISH MEDIAEVAL GLASSES — PHIALS — SILVER AND OTHER DRINKING CUPS OF THE UPPER CLASSES AND OF THE COIMMON PEOPLE — ORIENTAL GLASSES IN ENGLAND — VENETIAN GLASSES — HENRY VIII. 's COLLECTION — WILLIAM MORFl'S GLASSES — EARL OF LEICESTER'S GLASSES. The object of the abo\e cursory remarks upon glass-painting in England has been to show the re-introduction of glass-making, and the continued practice of the manufacture from the middle of the twelfth to the beginning of the sixteenth ce...ntury. But the author is aware of the statement put into print in 1851, "that there is not a particle of evidence to prove that any description of glass was manufactured in this country before the fifteenth century. "^ During the long period alluded to above it is too true that we have but one certain record of the making of glass vessels, and only the slightest material indi- cations, very far from sufficient, it must be confessed, to amount to an absolute warranty of such manufacture in England side by side and continuously with that of window-glass ; English-made mediaeval glass cups, which might have been painted and stained like the windows, as well as mere crude "vessel, " are, in fact, even rarer than examples of English-made pottery during the same period.
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