Journal of Glass Studies
The Journal of Glass Studies presents original research on topics related to the history of glass from its beginnings to the mid-20th century, a selection of recent important acquisitions made by public and private collectors, and a list of articles and books on glass added to the collection of the Museum’s Rakow Research Library during the year.
The Journal of Glass Studies, volume 50, 2008
The Corning Museum of Glass, 2008
351 pages, illustrations.
This volume marks a half-century of glass research with a look back at the founding of the publication, followed by 16 articles on a wide variety of topics. Three French contributors discuss aspects of glass production in antiquity, and a team of three scholars offers two accounts of early glassmaking in Israel. There is also an illustrated catalog of early Islamic gold sandwich glass in The Corning Museum of Glass. Reports on European glass include studies of a 16th-century Venetian goblet, masterworks of early German glass engraving, and chandeliers made at the Nǿstetangen glassworks in Norway. Two articles focus on technical and art-historical analyses of the famed Hope Goblet in The British Museum, and another pair of articles describe experiments in the reconstruction of Roman wood-fired glassworking furnaces.
American glass is represented by the analysis of an unpublished document about the beginning of opalescent glass (an agreement between Louis C. Tiffany and the French-born glassmaker Louis Heidt), and a survey of glass in the Smithsonian Institution donated by American manufacturers in the early years of the 20th century.
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