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Old English glasses. An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. With introductory notices, original documents, etc (1897)

Hartshorne, Albert, b. 1839 · London, New York, E. Arnold · leaf 53

An illustration from Old English glasses. An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. With introductory notices, original documents, etc, 1897, leaf 53
heavily trailed cups belong to this period (Figs.16, 17). The collateral progress of window-glass, from its scanty use in the first century,in the form of small rough cast plates almost impervious to light, to its employment fromthe seventh—perhaps earlier—to the ninth century, as a coloured medium…

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