Show GLASSWARE OF ANCIENT ROME HOME among the most beautiful the world has produced there is no more beautiful glassware than that of the roma komans which in many of the examples that still survine is further beautified by its great age the passage ot of centuries giving the surface of the vessels a bright glossy iridescent appearance due to a composition of the outer surface roman glass was in n many cases of remarkable delicacy and fragility both plain and colored articles were pere p ere wade it Is on record that r any ny pieces sold for very high prices even in the days of the nero himself was by way ot of being a connoisseur of class Is it no not related that he paid sert ser erlia tertia for two small vases the great beauty be auty of such buch famous surviving pieces as the portland v e in the british museum and the fine vase in the bourbon museum at naples are surely t sufficient t Ind indication cation of tho considerable sums paid for sucu bucl exquisite examples of the glass workers art by th tb cognoscenti no of ancient rome roine the collectors lec tors Maz magazine azine |