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'The stoning of St Stephen'

22nd August 1983

View of a gateway in Stepney

102 (1812)

Inscribed: 'STEPN

Ancient Egyptian glass mb-height 3870 'The stoning of St Stephen'Nineteen figures of ancient Egyptian glass with a Victorian glass brick at the Tower of London. Plate 2 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849). Inscribed: 'PLATE 2. Ancient Glass found in Egyptian Tombs, at Thebes. Glass Brick in foundation stone at the Tower of London.' Artist and lithographer are not noted

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