Report on the manufacture of glass by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Glass manufacture, Glass manufacture
Publisher: New York : D. Williams
Published: 1883-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Byzantine glass. —With the decline and fall of the city of Eome under the torrent of the German and Hunnish hordes the manufactories fell into comparative neglect and were confined to articles of every-day use. When Constantiue the Great, about A. D. 330, made Byzantium his capital, he attracted to the city, with other tradesmen, the glass-makers of the world. In the first half of the fifth century the Emperor Theodosius exempted the glass-makers from all taxation. In the commencement of the eighth century Justinian II furnished the Caliph Walid with glass mosaics for a new mosque at Damascus, and in the middle of the tenth century Eomauus II sent presents of glass to Cordova; indeed, so extensive was its manufacture at Byzantium that one of the gates leading to the liort took its name from the adjacent quarter in which the glass houses were situated. As has been noted, many of the Byzantine artisans came originally from Eome, and brought with them the traditions and customs of the art as it had been practiced there. These, as was customary in this early period, were handed down from father to son. In the new Eome of the East glass-making for a while assumed a front rank among the arts, but from the specimens that have come to us it is evident the skill and splendor of the Eoman period was not reached, though for five hundred years at least Byzantium secured and held the markets of the world. This art, with others, however, fell under the adverse influence of the bigoted emperors of the East, and the ancient

a The reproductions of the Portland vase in jasper ware by Wedgwood are well known, but its reproduction in glass by Mr. John Nortiwood, of Wordsley, England, is not so noted.

b South Kensington Museum Art Hand-book: Glass, by Alex. Neabitt, F. S. A., page 19. Those interested in the character of Romaa glass and its manufacture will find in this work a very complete description.

c See Curiosities of Glass-making, page 8, note. 1100

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