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Identifier: glass00dill (find matches)
Title: Glass
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Dillon, Edward, d. 1914
Subjects: Glass Glassware
Publisher: London, Methuen and Co. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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nent on the British Museum fragment.Indeed it is very possible that this late example may bebuilt up of separately cast pieces soldered on to the base.The famous cup of diatretum glass found nearStrassburg was destroyed during the bombardment ofthat city in 1870; it bore an imperfect inscription inraised letters, which has been interpreted as referring to the Emperor Maximianus Herculius, the partner of Con-stantine in the empire, who put an end to his life in310. In this case a network of red glass and an in-scription of green glass were superimposed upon a nearlycolourless ground. So in another cup preserved in thePalazzo Trivulzio at Milan, the inscription Bibe VivasMuLTOs Annos is again in green glass, but the networkis here blue. Where the detached decoration is of adifferent colour from the base, the original vase musthave been of an onyx glass formed by a casing processand of considerable thickness, unless, indeed, we are toregard the lettering and the network in such cases as72
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HOWL OF 01.IVE.GREEN GLASS, ON METAL ST/ LATE RdillAN ENGRAVED ROMAN GLASS formed separately and attached to the base by the littlerods. Perhaps the finest example of a vas diatretumis the bowl found in a stone sarcophagus at Worms,of which the fragments are now divided between themuseums of Bonn and Mainz. In the former museummay also be seen a tall amphora-shaped vase (sometwenty inches in height), with Bacchic scenes carved inlow relief, which was found in the same coffin. The oviform bowl belonging to Lord Rothschild iscarved in an olive-green glass, which appears of a deepred by transmitted light. It is surrounded by five figuresin what is practically complete relief; the subject repre-sented appears to be the Madness of Lycurgus. Thearms and the draperies of these figures are connected to the base by little rods as in the previous examples, butto judge from certain cavities in the interior correspondingto the principal external bossages, the glass was originallycast in a mould.^

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