Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_8 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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inese have failed to successfully imitate. Old Spanish glass was also indirectly affected—through the Moors — by forms of Persianinvention. But it is much heavier, and its decoration and proportions are markedly characteristic.It is little known and of great rarity. The British Museum has some examples, and a few will befound in the Moore Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Good examples of French seventeenth century glass are exceedingly rare, the wars of theFronde having greatly interfered with the development of the art in France. A few pieces of peculiar shape and texture are here classed as Rhodian, following the authorityof the late Dr. Hall. 870—Small Goblet. Roughly fluted, with a spiral twist to the flutings. Greenish glass. Probably French. Height, 2% inches. 871—Cup. With two handles. Bluish glass; handles of clear class. Venetian. Width, 2% inches. * Chosroes the reat, as he is called by the national historians, ruled over Persia from 531 to 579 A.D.
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