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Title: 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
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hartshorne, Albert, b. 1839
Subjects: Glass manufacture Glassware -- Great Britain Wine and wine making -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, New York, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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hed by theirplain ring handles. The beer glasses proper may be collectively described as larger versions ofthose for wine, and they include heavier and more ample vessels of another class.Some with funnel-shaped bowls are thus particularised on the drawings: Thelower partt of these glasses and the buttons must be solid mettall and all Ye Restof ye glasse I woud have to be blowne thicker then usealj especullj Ye feett mustbe strong. The same were provided for French wine, and still more solidvarieties also ordered, all probably for use in ordinaries. The beer tumblers arerepetitions of those for wine (Plate 30). Among the sundry glass vessels depicted by Greene the covered pots forbeer or wine, porringers or posnets, in two sizes, with ears or handles, are mostconspicuous. They were necessary concessions to the English taste in the daysof the Merry Monarch with the sardonic countenance, and their capacity musthave sorely puzzled the abstemious Venetians. Then come the fountain pots for
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