A descriptive catalogue of the glass vessels in the South Kensington Museum (1878)
Victoria and Albert Museum, Nesbitt, Alexander, 1817-1886 · London, G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode · leaf 23
of the fourth dynafty, more than 4000 years ago ; and, as has already been mentioned, in the tombs at Beni Hafan, dating from the reign of Ofirtafen the Firft, at leaft 2000 years B.C., the procefs of glafs-blowing is reprefented in an unmiftakeable manner. (Manners and Cuftoms of the Ancient… … Colledion in the Britifh Mufeum. It was found many years ago at Thebes by Signor Drovetti, and given by him to Mrs. Larking, the wife of J. W. Larking, Efq., then H. B. M. Con- ful at Alexandria, and pafTed from that family to the Slade colledlion. It is formed of opaque blue glafs of a very bright…
Glass · Pottery
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