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the ruby tints were apparently quite unknown 
to them. 
The Romans were never able to obtain a 
transparent red. Instead, they had to fall 
back upon their opaque red glass, the vitrum 
haematinon of Pliny. 
The glass of Venice (iSIurano), renowned 
for its crystal clearness, also was produced in 
an opaque jasper-red sometime during the 14th 
Century, as an inventory of the Due d'Anjou, 
dated 1360, mentions a “pichier de verre ver¬ 
meil semblable a Jaspe.” 
Elaborate engraving has been used in the dec¬ 
oration of the claret colored Bohemian glass 
decanter and tumbler 
German Glass 
Very little indeed do we know of the nature 
of German glass antedating the first half of 
the 16th Centur}’. Then the Italian influence, 
which early came to bear on German glass, 
made itself distinctly felt. “This much we 
know,” says Dillon (Glass, Methuen & Co., 
London), "that in the 15th Century, and per¬ 
haps earlier, the Venetian glass was largely 
imported into Germany, and this not only 
on the backs of hawkers, for the large Venetian 
firms had agencies in many German cities. 
There were at that time depots of the Venetian 
merchants at such comparatively remote places 
as the Silesian towns of Gdrlitz and Breslau, 
and early in the 15th Century the Italian 
glass was sold in the market-place of Vienna. 
At this time, however, we are unable to trace 
any influence these importations may have had 
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The most interesting and practical arrangement for a collection of glass is to place it against the sim. Shelves are built up along the win¬ 
dow end of a breakfast porch and the collection placed on them. The play of color and light is fascinating and the contour of the pieces 
is easily studied and best displayed in this fashion 
