English Table Glass

Old English glass — which to all intents and purposes is the glass of the eighteenth century — has many interesting features and individual beauties. It lacks, as a whole, the fragile delicacy and the in- finite variety of manipulation that characterize the products of the Venetian glass-houses ; it is not marked by the florid decoration of enamels and gilding that is so typical of German work, nor do we find the English makers producing those lofty pieces, elaborately designed and somewhat redundantly engraved, that one associates with the Low Countries ; but, as a whole, the glass vessels of the eighteenth century in England (and more particularly the drinking vessels) possess in their variety and their simplicity an interest which, though less clamant than that of their foreign congeners, is very real and very lasting.

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ENGLISH TABLE GLASS

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE FIRST CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY AND PREFATORY

THE SECOND CHAPTER GLASSES OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

THE THIRD CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GLASSES THEIR NUMBER AND CLASSIFICATION

THE FOURTH CHAPTER WINE GLASSES BALUSTER STEMS AND PLAIN STEMS

THE FIFTH CHAPTER WINE GLASSES AIR-TWIST STEMS

THE SIXTH CHAPTER WINE GLASSES OPAQUE WHITE AND COLOURED TWISTS COLOURED GLASSES CUT STEMS

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