Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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lection, Nuremberg. 7. Crystal Goblet, with cut ornaments, 17 th century, NationalMuseum, Munich, 8. Venetian glass Goblet, 17th century, British Museum, (Lartpour tous). 9. Modern Champagne-glass, Landesgewerbehalle, Carisruhe. 10. Old German glass Goblet, 17 th century. 11. Old German glass Goblet, 17th century. The Hanap. (Plate 205.) The same blending of forms which the reader will have ob-served in the treatment of cups and goblets occurs in the case ofHanaps. Ordinary colloquial language makes no definite distinctionbetween them. A State-cup presupposes a considerable richness ofdecoration, it is usually a cup or goblet-shaped product of the gold-smiths art, provided with a cover, or it may even be a richlyfinished glass of similar form. Plate 205. The Hanap. 1. Design, by Hans Holbein, German, 16th century, (Formen-schatz). 2. Design, German, 16th centuiy, (Formenschatz). 3. Design, 2nd half of the 16th century, the cover makes an in-dependent Cup, (Musterornamente). 348 VASES.
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Plate 205. The Hauap. The Hanap. — The Romer or Rummer. 349 4—5. German, 16th and 17th centuries, chased silver, treasure of Kegensburg, (Musterornamente).6—8. Old German, glass, 17 th century. The ROmer or Rummer. (Plate 206.) The Rummer, the glass par excellence for Rhenish wine, is themost important representative of the Old German drinking glasses,and is altogether one of the handsomest forms of vessels. C. Friedrichin his work Die Altdeutschen Gldser, the study of which we warmlyrecommend, states that the fragments of antique glass were worked-upagain into fine glass-ware; and that this ware was called Romanumvitrum or Romarium vitrum. That led to the designation Romariiwhich then became Romer and Rummer. The original form ofthe Rummer is somewhat cylindrical (fig. 1); instead of a foot ithas a ring at the bottom. At a later period a low foot was added,upon which the body began to be divided into members (figs. 2, and3). The high foot eventually led to the goblet form (figs

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