Identifier: oldenglishglasse00hart (find matches)
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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tem and corrugated foot, and with no suggestionof nozzles, in the same collection. A taper candlestick with a baluster stem, anda corrugated and domed foot, is also in the possession of Mrs. J. Paull, andone with a brilliant air-twisted stem is in the authors collection ; Mr, S. A. Gurneyhas a capital pair of candlesticks about 8 inches high, with wrythen sockets,twisted stems, moulded and beaded bases, and domed and corrugated feet. Allthese glass objects must have come from the same manufactory, and the knowndates, from Hall Marks, of English silver taper candlesticks without nozzles, ^ See p. 263. —shows that as late as 1810 pink and cream- A Rcnishaw Wine Bill — an item of Sir G. ing champagne was bought at £7 : 17:6 a dozen. R. Sitwells remarkable assemblage of documents This price is partly attributable to the bloats con- illustrating the Renishaw household expenditure tincntal decreed against England by Napoleon in from 1660 to the early years of the present century i 806.
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49—ENGLISH GLASS. CHAP. XVIII. GROUP X. CHAMPAGNE GLASSES. 297 whose shape the glass ones so much resemble, leave no doubt as to their period.^Two rather later champagne glasses in the cabinet of Lord Torphichen haverespectively an air- and an opaque-twisted stem, and domed and folded feet (Figs.255, 256). Details of make confirm the impression that the early short champagneglasses were, like the taper candlesticks, specialities of manufacture, and not

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