[Illustration: OLD STRAWBERRY CUT DUBLIN TEAPOT. In Mrs. Day's collection. OLD MUNSTER GLASS TEAPOT, moulded. In the Author's collection. TEAPOT. Waterford, _circa_ 1783. In Mr. Robert Frank's collection.] [Illustration: CREAM OR ICE PAILS, Irish, _circa_ 1825-35. A wonderful example of deep step cutting, with feather handles. The glass is nearly 3/4 in. thick. In the possession of Mrs. McBean.] PLATE LIII. [Illustration: A very fine old Irish blue glass BOWL, with a magnificent ring, 9 in. diam. In the Author's family collection.] [Illustration: A very rare Dublin blue glass BOWL, with unfinished foot, 8 in. high; extremely heavy. Specially made, _circa_ 1740. In the Author's family collection.] [Illustration: Pair of LACEMAKER'S LAMPS, heavy purple-blue glass, made in Dublin, _circa_ 1730-40. 13 in. high. In the Author's family collection.] [Illustration: Decoration] =RUBBINGS= PLATE LIV. [Illustration: The only cutting on a rare canoe-shaped Waterford bowl in the Author's collection. "Flutes" also a very early idea, but became deeper and smaller and sharper as time went on.] [Illustration: A wonderful special cutting on a "pinched" Waterford boat-shaped bowl a little deeper than engraving. In the Author's collection.] [Illustration: A very beautiful fan edge from a fine Waterford bowl of _circa_ 1815.] [Illustration: Vandyke cutting, more commonly known as "bull's-eye." A cutting very much done between 1770 and 1800, and probably more copied both abroad and in England _than any other_. Sometimes referred to as "Geometrical design."] [Illustration: Beautiful swag and line cutting with fan edge. This is an early effort, probably 1765; but there is a fine example on a Waterford dessert service in the possession of Colonel Wike.] PLATE LV. [Illustration: Hobnail cutting, _late_ 1830, so often confused with diamond cutting.] [Illustration: Strawberry cutting, so often confused with hobnail cutting; much used from 1780. This is an early example. Note the unevenness of the lines.] [Illustration: Flat diamond. This was a _shallow_ cutting from _circa_ 1768 onwards; after 1790 it became _much_ deeper and sharper, the centre coming out to a sharp point.] [Illustration: Fine "fan" cutting from an old Waterford decanter.] [Illustration: "Double," or "long" diamond, so often called in England "lozenge." It was a very soft shallow cutting till after 1780, when it became bolder and deeper.] PLATE LVI. [Illustration: One of many adaptations of cutting on Irish glass from 1790 to 1835.] [Illustration: One of many adaptations of cutting on Irish glass from 1790 to 1835.] [Illustration: Cutting from a rare Waterford bowl. "Leaf," "shallow diamond," and "flute." This early cutting was very irregular, and so shallow that it is little deeper than heavy engraving.] [Illustration: A fine "castellated" edge from a Waterford fruit dish.] PLATE LVII.