| The quality of the paintings of the glass
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| | cut in the manner of 150 years earlier.
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| made the Germans' noteworthy. The Germany
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| | It was exported and proved highly popular
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| craftsmen were able to successfully
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| | in England; much of it was of clear glass
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| engrave natural rock-crystal adapt that
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| | 'flashed' with a thin coating of red cut
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| to their skill to glass setting a new
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| | through with scenes of stag hunting and
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| standard of glass-making. And Netherland
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| | views of German spas.
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| made the Venetian type of glass in the
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| | Holland
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| seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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| | Glass of Venetian type was made in the
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| They excelled in glass decorations.
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| | Netherlands in the seventeenth and
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| Germany
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| | eighteenth centuries, but it was in the
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| The hold of the Venetians on the markets
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| | decoration of glass that the Dutch
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| of Europe was a strong one, and continual
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| | excelled. Like the Germans, they
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| efforts were made to break it in all the
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| | ornamented much of their output with
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| countries concerned. The Germans were
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| | cutting on the wheel, but a specialty was
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| skilled at enameling their glass, but it
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| | engraving with a diamond which was often
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| was of Venetian type and only the quality
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| | done so finely that the decoration can be
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| of the painting makes it noteworthy.
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| | seen only when the light falls across it.
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| Late in the seventeenth century they
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| | There are specimens of diamond engraving
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| managed to develop a heavy type of
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| | in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, dated 1600
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| crystal glass to which they applied
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| | and 1604, and similar work was done
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| cutting on the wheel; a revolving fine
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| | throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth
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| grindstone against which the article was
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| | centuries. The names of Frans Greenwood
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| held for pattern -malting.
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| | (a Dutchman in spite of his English
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| This was a method first used in ancient
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| | surname) and David Wolff are the best
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| times by lapidaries in the forming of
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| | known of those who did this delicate
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| gemstones, but had been employed also by
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| | work. Some of the surviving examples are
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| the Roman glassmakers notably, as
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| | signed and dated, but many bear no
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| mentioned above, in the Portland Vase.
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| | indication of artist or of when they were
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| The German craftsmen had already achieved
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| | executed. Some of the late
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| success in engraving natural rock
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| | eighteenth-century engravings were on
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| crystal, which was then mounted
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| | English glasses of the period, which were
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| elaborately in gold set with gems, and it
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| | then being imported into Holland.
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| was not a difficult step to adapt their
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| | At the end of the eighteenth century an
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| skill to glass. The most famous of these
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| | artist named Zeuner, of whom remarkably
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| engraving establishments were in Berlin,
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| | little is known in the way of personal
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| Petersdorf in Silesia (now Poland), and
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| | details, executed a number of paintings
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| Cassel.
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| | on glass. These were done in an unusual
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| Their successors, but the glasswares of
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| | manner, with gold and silver leaf laid on
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| Silesia and Bohemia continued to be made
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| | the back of the glass which was then
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| throughout the eighteenth century did not
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| | scratched through and filled with black
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| equal the fine workmanship of the earlier
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| | paint.
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| craftsmen.
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| | The skies in outdoor scenes were painted
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| A milky-white glass, often decorated in
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| | in natural colors, and the effect is
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| enamel colors, was very popular and much
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| | striking and decorative. Some of his
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| of this has survived. It can be confused
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| | surviving works are of views in
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| with the rare white Bristol product by
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| | Amsterdam, and a small pane! in the
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| the inexperienced, but is seen to be
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| | Victoria and Albert Museum shows a view
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| commonplace when compared closely.
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| | of the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, in
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| A deep red, or ruby, glass was made in
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| | about 1780.
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| the early and mid-nineteenth century, and
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