British Museum - Glass Collection Photos

The British Museum in London hosts glass objects from around the world.

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Enameled & gilded Islamic glass mosque lamp from Syria or Egypt at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Enameled & gilded copy of Islamic glass mosque lamp by PHILIPP3-Joseph Brocard of Paris at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Glass beaker decorated in Islamic style by Master Aldrevandin of Venice Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.German glass Pious family humpen from Saxony; Emperor & Electors humpen from Franconia; & monogrammed beaker from Saxony at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.
Enameled & gilded Islamic glass mosque lamp (c1330-45) from Syria or Egypt at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Enameled & gilded copy of Islamic glass mosque lamp (1867) by PHILIPP3-Joseph Brocard of Paris at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Glass beaker decorated in Islamic style (c1330) by Master Aldrevandin of Venice Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.German glass Pious family humpen (1678) from Saxony; Emperor & Electors humpen (1611) from Franconia; & monogrammed beaker (1678) from Saxony at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.
Red glass decanter with outer white layer cut away as spiral prob. shown at Great Exhibition of 1851 by George Bacchus & Sons of Birmingham, England at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Cut glass wine glass with portrait of Marshal Kutusov who led Russian army against Napoleon by Russian Imperial Glassworks of St Petersburg at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Stemmed glasses for State Dining Room of Federal Building at New York World's Fair by Walter Dorwin Teague & Edwin Fuerst & made by Libbey Glass Co of Toledo, Ohio at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.
Red glass decanter with outer white layer cut away as spiral prob. shown at Great Exhibition of 1851 (c1850) by George Bacchus & Sons of Birmingham, England at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Cut glass wine glass with portrait of Marshal Kutusov who led Russian army against Napoleon (1812-3) by Russian Imperial Glassworks of St Petersburg at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.Stemmed glasses for State Dining Room of Federal Building at New York World's Fair (1939) by Walter Dorwin Teague & Edwin Fuerst & made by Libbey Glass Co of Toledo, Ohio at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.

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