[Illustration: A most rare and very shallow adaptation of diamond cutting from an old Irish chalice, _circa_ 1770.] [Illustration: A most beautiful bit of cutting on a rare early Waterford mirror in Commander Swithinbank's collection.] [Illustration: Curious shallow cutting from a set of Cork plates and finger-bowls in the Author's collection.] [Illustration: An example of step cutting, horizontal and vertical, from a late Waterford bowl.] PLATE LVIII. [Illustration: Cutting from an early Waterford canoe-shaped bowl. In the Author's collection.] [Illustration: Very early cutting from Mr. Weguelin's Waterford urns, showing the remarkable inaccuracy of the cutting.] [Illustration: A variation of the early leaf cutting, somewhat later, therefore a little sharper and more symmetrical.] [Illustration: Flat "leaf," one of the first ideas of cutting. It is so soft that to the touch it is almost like moulding.] PLATE LIX. [Illustration: A wonderful example of "lustre" cutting. Dublin, _circa_ 1785.] [Illustration: Cutting, soft and shallow, from a Cork bowl, late eighteenth century. In the Author's collection.] [Illustration: A soft early star found on the bottoms of finger-bowls and decanters, _circa_ 1750. Note the remarkable variation from the given centre.] [Illustration: A very beautiful shallow-cut star, from a Waterford dish, about 1790.] [Illustration: A very early husk or leaf cutting from an early Irish wine-glass, _circa_ 1760. This is one of the earliest cuttings.] PLATE LX. [Illustration: ONE OF A PAIR OF DUBLIN WALL LIGHTS. _In the Author's collection._ _From a drawing in the Author's possession._] Transcriber's Notes: Plate XI caption, removed "." from "rainbow." band. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. HTML version, Illustrations have been laid out sequentially, with captions below each. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Irish Glass, by Graydon Stannus