Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 384
blowing. A number of glass bowls,vases, and bottles from Nimroudmay be seen in the British Mu-seum, the earliest specimen ofwhich is an Assyrian transparentglass vase with two handles, andis inscribed with the name of the monarch Sargon (B.C. 722-705). This is supposed tobe the oldest known… … ^iiit- Fig. 294. Glass Vase or Bottle ; height, 31 ins. (B. M.) 366 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. palaces, and have been found in most of the ancient tombsin Greece, Italy, and in the islands of Cyprus, Sardinia,and Rhodes. These little bottles have been made by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Phoenicians,and…
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