Must-sees include the exquisite glass Palm House and Waterlilly House and the 10-storey Chinese pagoda.

She had already seen a glass statuette in an antique-shop in Mayfair, an exquisite little glass nude by Rend Lalique.

Also here to tempt you is a selection of exquisite and unusual glass and ceramic beaded jewelry.

The King did not reply, simply arched an eyebrow in query as he handed Ylena a small, exquisite glass of a honey-colored wine that looked syrupy and delicious.

Young servants moved about offering white wine in exquisite glasses from silver trays.

Some say it was the whiskey decanter he used that she admired and wished to reproduce in "exquisite, expensive, delicate glass."

I follow as she wades through the strawlike remains of what was once a manicured garden, past the abandoned pool, the empty hot tub and the exquisite leaded glass that frames the front door.

The exquisite glass shattered, raining down like ice.

The panels cast a dreamy light in the rooms - which are furnished in the most sparse manner with stone floors, white beds and the odd piece of exquisite antique glass.

The cases were of a strange golden wood, with fronts of exquisite glass, and containing the mummified forms of creatures outreaching in grotesqueness the most chaotic dreams of man.