Collector's luck; or, A repository of pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the household furniture and ornaments of olden time.. (1919)
Carrick, Alice Van Leer, 1875- · Boston, The Atlantic monthly press · leaf 144
thoseearly days. I am wondering just which of thesepatterns is like the ones Samuel Sewall describes inhis Diary. July 18th, 1687, — Mr. Mather hadtwo Venice glasses broken at our Meeting. Now,as not one of this godly company could be describedas a lewd, roistering fellow, I am attributing… … From the Metropolitan Museum. Fragile Venetian glasses, delicately shaped and charming throughtheir bubble-like transparency. Notice the elaborate stems. ♦;::
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