Glass

Transcriber's Notes
THE CONNOISSEUR’S LIBRARY
GENERAL EDITOR: CYRIL DAVENPORT
ENAMELLED GOBLET VENETIAN OR FRANCO-SYRIAN. CIRCA 1300, A.D.
GLASS
EDWARD DILLON, M.A.
The Connoisseur’s Library
NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
LONDON: METHUEN AND CO.
1907

It is now nearly thirty years since the late Mr. Nesbitt wrote the introduction to the catalogue of the glass at South Kensington. Some years previously the description of the glass in the Slade collection had been intrusted to the same gentleman. Since that time many works treating of special departments of the history of glass have been published in France, in Germany, and in Italy. Much fresh light has been thrown upon the primitive glass of the Egyptians; our knowledge of the glass of both the Near and the Far East has been revolutionised; abundant fresh material has been provided for the history of Byzantine glass, and the wanderings of the glass-workers from L’Altare and Murano have been traced in full detail. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Old English Glasses , has exhaustively told the story of our native glass from the documentary side, and has described with the minutest detail the wine-glasses of the eighteenth century. Apart, however, from the introductory chapters of the last work, I know of no attempt of recent years to give a general account of the history of glass—using that term in the narrower sense—as viewed from the artistic side.