The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 408
fly of case bottles, octag-onal in shape, with pewter stoppers, which screw onand off. An occasional drinking glass is also seen.The glass is transparent, uncolored, and of inferiorquality. The peculiarity of the ware lies in its deco-ration. It is painted in verifiable colors with flowers,wreaths,… … d TABLES 229 This ware is of German or Dutch manufacture, andbegan to be brought to this country early in theeighteenth century. The second kind to which we refer is also anenameled glass, but entirely different in characterfrom the other. The glass, instead of being trans-parent, is opalized, so…
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