[Illustration: WATERFORD BOWL OF RARE BEAUTY.
7-1/2 in. high, 12 in. diam. Engraved with escutcheon of the WINDE
family (Chamberlain to H.R.H. Princess Sophia, sister to George III.).
Probably a Christening Bowl. _Walter Harding collection._]
[Illustration: A REMARKABLE CONE-SHAPED BOWL IN TWO PARTS.
12 in. high, base 8 in.; _circa_ 1770. No duplicate.
_Originally in the Author's and now in the Walter Harding
collection._]
At the present moment some very clever reproductions from Bohemia are
arriving in England, but they are very light and have a peculiar _pink
tinge_, which is more specially noticeable in the larger pieces.
As has already been pointed out, nearly all Irish glass is heavy, and a
very large proportion of the modern fakes fail to attain the required
weight. A marked exception to the general rule of weight is to be found
in Irish blown specimens, produced from about 1735 to 1750, which were
very light, and only engraved or quite plain, _never cut_. The faker
frequently forgets the latter point. When, however, he remembers it,
and produces plain or engraved pieces similar to the Irish, there
is yet another point of distinction. The Irish pieces often show
air-bubbles, but never the little specks of sand which, as I have
already said, almost invariably appear in the metal peculiar to foreign
glass.