Glass

Name: Glass
Author: Dillon, Edward
Dillon, Edward
Glass; Glassware
CHAPTER XV. The Renaissance Glass of the Spanish Netherlands and of
  Spain,                                                             240

 CHAPTER XVI. The Glass of Germany. The Green Glass of the Rhine and
  the Netherlands—Enamelled Glass,                                   251

 CHAPTER XVII. The Glass of Germany (_continued_). German Cut and
  Engraved Glass—The Ruby Glass of Kunckel—_Milch_ Glass,            276

 CHAPTER XVIII. Dutch Glass of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
  Centuries,                                                         294

 CHAPTER XIX. English Glass of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
  Centuries,                                                         299

 CHAPTER XX. English Glass of the Eighteenth Century,                321

 CHAPTER XXI. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Glass of
  Persia, India, and China,                                          337

 CHAPTER XXII. Contemporary Glass,                                   356

 INDEX,                                                              361




                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


        I. SYRIAN OR VENETIAN GLASS. Enamelled Beaker of slightly
           greenish glass with a few elongated bubbles. (H. 7-1/2 in.)
           The Virgin and Child enthroned between conventional lilies;
           on either side an angel holding a tall candle; beyond, the
           figures of St. Peter and St. Paul. Above, an inscription in
           Gothic characters—D[=N]IA MATER REGIS ALTISSIMI ORA P PA.
           From the Adrian Hope collection. End of thirteenth century.
           British Museum.                             (_Frontispiece._)

       II. UNGUENTARIA OF PRIMITIVE GLASS. British Museum.

           (1) From Gurob, near Illahun, Upper Egypt. (H. 4 in.)
           Decoration of palm-pattern formed by double drag, on a
           sard-coloured translucent ground. Nineteenth Dynasty.

           (2) Amphora-shaped vase. (H. 5-3/8 in.) Pattern formed by
           simple drag, on opaque red ground. The body apparently turned
           on wheel. Handles of green transparent glass. Said to come
           from the Ionian Islands.

           (3) Small Jug of Oenochoë shape. (H. 5-1/2 in.) Palm pattern
           formed by double drag, on dark blue, nearly opaque ground.
           _Provenance_ uncertain. From the Slade collection.
                                                      (_To face p. 22._)

      III. EGYPTIAN GLASS PASTES. British Museum.

           (1) Scarab of dark blue paste with white veins
           imitating _lapis lazuli_. (L. 3-1/2 in.) From Thebes.
           Later Empire.

           (2) Vase for cosmetics, in shape of column with papyrus
           capital. (H. 3-3/4 in.) Slade collection.

           (3) Plaque of ‘fused mosaic.’ (L. 3-1/4 in., about 3/8 in. in
           thickness.) From the cemetery at Denderah. Ptolemaic period.
                                                      (_To face p. 32._)
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