Drinking Vessels of Bygone Days

Out of curiosity, anyone know of a site with good pictures of period glassware? (In particular, I'm looking for the painted glassware that is awfully reminiscent of the souvenir glasses you can buy at any major tourist attraction...)

Jeffs/etc.

snipped-for-privacy@rgs.uci.edu wrote:

This isn't a website, but if you can get ahold of a copy of "Glass of the Sultans" by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Corning Museum of Glass, it has a lot of great painted islamic glass. The cover art is a painted glass with colorful birds.

Here are a couple of links from CMoG.org

A painted bowl from the

9th century European painted glass from Venice 1500-1525

From the Met...

Stained, or Luster-Painted, Glass from Islamic Lands

Also try The British Museum at

- I did a quick search on painted drinking glass and got 7 examples.

The Germans were real big on painted glass too. Do a Google on "Humpen" and you should find lots of examples.

Thanks! I'm slowly figuring out the terminology ("glass" comes up with a few zillion results...). The "beaker humpen" seem to be exactly what I remember seeing in museums, and what I'm trying to find more information on,

Jeffs/etc.

Artemisia wrote: