German Glass 1603-1850
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Glasgow Museums has a small collection of German glass produced from 1603-1850. This includes several seventeenth-century green coloured drinking glasses made in Germany and the Rhineland. The glass was manufactured in glass factories near forests, rich in natural resources needed to produce the glass. This type of glass is known as ‘Waldglas’, meaning ‘forest glass’. Several of the German glass examples were acquired by Sr William Burrell (1861-1958), and his wife Constance, Lady Burrell (1875-1961), which they donated to Glasgow in 1944. Examples in the Burrell Collection include roemer and berkemeyer drinking glasses.
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