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fish of core-made glass green glass enameled goblet Venetian glass ewer Kurfürstenhumpen (electors beaker) glass goblet; diamond-point engraving Tiffany Studios: Landscape window glass vases from Finland Figure 212: An example of diatreta (cage cups), perhaps made for a Greek living in the Rhineland, 3rd to 4th century AD. In the Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne. Height 12.1 cm. Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an inscription in Kufic lettering praising anunknown sultan, Syrian, Mamluk period, c. 1300. In the Victoria andAlbert M Figure 220: Humpen (enamelled drinking vessels), German, 17th century. (Left) Tankard decorated with a representation of the Trinity. Height 30 cm. (Right) Reichsadlerhumpen, decorated with the imperi

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fish of core-made glass
green glass enameled goblet
Venetian glass ewer
Kurfürstenhumpen (electors beaker)
glass goblet; diamond-point engraving
Tiffany Studios: Landscape window
glass vases from Finland
Figure 212: An example of diatreta (cage cups), perhaps made for a Greek living in the Rhineland, 3rd to 4th century AD. In the Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne. Height 12.1 cm.
Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an inscription in Kufic lettering praising anunknown sultan, Syrian, Mamluk period, c. 1300. In the Victoria andAlbert M
Figure 220: Humpen (enamelled drinking vessels), German, 17th century. (Left) Tankard decorated with a representation of the Trinity. Height 30 cm. (Right) Reichsadlerhumpen, decorated with the imperi
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany
American designer
Vase with relief decoration by Émile Gallé, c. 1895; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Émile Gallé
French glass designer
René Lalique: hair ornament and brooch
René Lalique
French jeweler
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Antonio Salviati
Italian glassmaker
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Maurice Marinot
French glassmaker
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Benjamin Richardson
British glassmaker
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Paolo Venini
Italian glassmaker