Glass Circle News_No.6, Apr 1978

J_
_ t , 1 LEG_D PIly
provenan e, 4 . /ot_h C.
witt1 st.:cngly incised inscr·p :iot of Ch i ..
From Ita y comes another re vessel. an attract:.ve ls 4. r ‘>man
a so-called TP.ULLA – of L1te glass with the unusual fe~ture
in opaque wh te glass. Mould··blow”Tl Sidonian glass of he
r prese ted by a 1st C. beaker with figural subj:cts.
The Vereti n section includes an outstanding exa le o
the fo of a g blet with colourless bowl dEcorated w: h
coloure ena ~l dots and remnant5 of gilding, set
u n a
of opaque bl e gla·; sprinkled with gold dust, and mtid
also a fine group of 16th and 17th C. latticinio la
attrac ve and rare 18th C. c~p and s~uce in
appealing green, blue and bro,,m – le inn·–r 1_ yer b in
aventurine sprinkling. The 19 h C, latti in o goblet
by Salva 1 illustrates perfectly the ~k· 11 f this gl ~
maker 1 reproduci g earlier techti u ~. An impre:siv_
Reichsadlerhumpen and a massi e Ox
nkopf ~lass with co
from the ichtelgebtrgc, date~ 16th C. and 1716 res ect-
-~=y
ively, are fine e ampl s of Gcrma am 11 d dr!.nking
Humpen. Amongst t e more attrac ive 19th C. s must be
sl1gled o a pai ot- n bea ers portraying AlexaLd£:
II and hi Tsarina lexandrovna, p,oducelown b1wl wa now routh.e sd ti!
• , th ov4!rblo sect ou be tw en b 1wl o pif,
d ,. ssel by scorln and reheat’, chin
·i1. Now !hp r al skill ot tht• d
a handle ~f ju~ or cr~aling the
1~e a ain, th pontil
can hovr changed r; 0 •
n
in ·hl( h impressi g COl11
1I b
fn e pr
t d ng ladi :. • Lh
LC 0 NEW MEMBERS
M . 8 11 of Toronto, anada.
ven \I th this
o
th
pou
Dt: M.W. McLain o
Mr and ~I,. R. E.
tive fonn f
bl
cut
g a ly nJoy d
M s A. Dawson of the B ltish Mus1..um.
Mrs J.B. Jo nstoni of Weymouth, Do,set.
Mr B.B. Hyde of Bultimore, u.s ..
Mrs J. Pit 4irn •M
Mr C. Truman c,f th d
Mr Hugh MacDonald of Lanarksln 13. Alb . t Mu eu 11.
TH! TUNSTI L COT,L rnoN IN THE CHELMSl-‘ORD AND ES X MUSEUM.
ATthur: Tunstlll tr vell d the country for Col. Crumpton’s 1 ctrlcal ork
in the 192 s an ea ly ‘:!Qs during which tfmc he collc ted sorn 400 English
drinking glassu, of nneveu 1ualily, rnng .. from c.1700 to 1820. since lis
dea h in 1958 the cullectlor, hNJIH’ 11 ·d Lo the mu euin, l’-as heen diapl yod in
. ed
d ranks, fluor~scent t11l>c 1, t tr,r and b tom, er,ainst a bright blue
back1round.
About !8 months ago our member Hugh Cu. ry put to the Curator l.deas abv1,
catching the public interest wf th ,1pdat<'d showers ,"'s w:.th selected items 011 d pl Y illustrating glaasmaldng technique!, t1t1d so,·ial ."'nd domestic habits through J gl s coll ction. Ttie Curator was reccpti .ind plan~ , tong these lin , 111:e now 111Hier way. luable and tangible support cam from Mr. Chadeston in the form of fine decanter and the l ng loan of a :=:mall but f I ne collection of ale gl u Other membeu, Messrs. Ud 11, Ahn And Dud, ln&, , h l pin• with th formid bl ta k of r cataloguing the entire collection be o c pi ce ar select d for dta • Y nd duplicates sold to finen~e incr asin& the scop or th& collection b yond rtnkina l~saea. ah tell• us th Glas Circl e and a cal to him be o u t r of a1ei1 •