Glass

Name: Glass
Author: Dillon, Edward
Dillon, Edward
Glass; Glassware
(2) Tazza of thin glass. (Diam. 6 in.) Coat of arms in
           lozenge in centre, surrounded by ring with flowers in oval
           medallions—apple-green, dull red, blue and yellow enamels.
           Powder gold band round margin. (Slade, _ex_ Bernal
           collection.)                              (_To face p. 214._)

     XXXV. FRENCH GLASS OF RENAISSANCE. British Museum. (Slade
           collection.)

           (1) Statuette of Louis XIII. or XIV. (H. 4-1/4 in.) Opaque
           white glass with coloured enamels. Probably made at Nevers.
           Seventeenth century.

           (2) Statuette of man with muff. (H. of figure, 5 in.) Opaque
           white, porcelain-like glass, on a copper base. On stand of
           white Dresden china, partly gilt.

           (3) Small burette (H. 5 in.) of dark greenish-blue
           transparent glass; the body and neck splashed with green,
           white, and red enamels. Gilt berry-like bosses on body.
           Probably sixteenth century.               (_To face p. 233._)

    XXXVI. SPANISH GLASS. Victoria and Albert Museum.

           (1) Vase of pale bottle-green glass; four handles with
           quilled edges. (H. 6-1/2 in.) From the South of Spain.
           Sixteenth or seventeenth century.

           (2) Jug of white transparent glass (H. 8-1/2 in.), made at
           S. Ildefonso.

           (3) Vase of transparent glass, slightly greenish. (H. 6 in.)
           Two handles with quilled edges. From the South of Spain.
           Sixteenth or seventeenth century.         (_To face p. 245._)

   XXXVII. GERMAN GLASS. Roemer of green glass; berry prunts on waist;
           the foot built up of glass stringing. _Circa_ 1600. Germanic
           Museum, Nuremberg.                        (_To face p. 254._)

  XXXVIII. GERMAN GLASS FURNACE. Sixteenth century. From Agricola,
           _De Re Metallica_, Basle, 1556.           (_To face p. 260._)

    XXXIX. GERMAN GLASS. _Willkomm Humpen_, enamelled in colours with
           the _Reichs-adler_. On the wings, as recorded by an
           inscription on the back, the arms of the various members of
           the Holy Roman Empire. Dated 1656. Greenish glass; below
           margin, a ring of ‘powdered’ gold, between beading of white
           and blue enamel. British Museum (Henderson Bequest).
                                                     (_To face p. 264._)

       XL. GERMAN GLASS. British Museum.

           (1) Beaker of clear white glass. (H. 5-1/2 in.) Enamelled
           with double eagle, white and blue, with yellow beaks and
           claws; at the back a sprig of lily-of-the-valley. Dated 1596.
           From the Bernal collection.
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