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Show GLASSWARE OF ANCIENT ROME. Among the Most Deautlful the World Has Produced. Thero Is no moro beautiful glass-waro glass-waro than that of the Romans, which In many of the o.Mitnples that still survive. Is further beautillcd by Its grent age, tho pnssago of centuries giving the surface of the vessels a bright, glossy, Iridescent appearance, duo to a composition of tho outer surface. sur-face. Human g'nss was In many ensas of remarkable delicacy and fragility fra-gility j both plain and colored urtlcles ,wero made. It la on record that many pieces sold for very high prices even In tho days of tho Cnesars. Nero Umsclf wns by way ot being n connoisseur con-noisseur of ulass. Is It not related that ho paid fi.OOO serlcrtla for two small vases? Tho grt'jt beauty of such famous surviving pieces as the 'Portland" vaso In tho Hrlttsh museum, muse-um, and the flno vaso In tho Hourbon museum at Nanlos, are, uuro'y n sufficient suf-ficient vindication of tho considerable sums pnld for such cxtjulslto examples of the glasswurker's art by tho cognoscenti cog-noscenti of nncicnt Rnme! Tho Collector's Col-lector's Magazine. |
