Glass

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GLASS
This book features the most important achievements of the glass-maker's and glass-decorator's art, from the rise of Venicte as the glass-manufacturing centre of Europe. The techniques of the richly coloured, enamelled, overlaid, engraved, gilded and Zwischen-gold glass of Central Europe-especially of Bohemia-are described and illustrated, as a background to the great period of English and Irish glass in the i8th century.
A special feature of this book is that it gives, for almost the first time, a full and proper coverage to Victorian ornamental glass-its qualities are now winning the appreciation of collectors who ignored it in the past. As in so many fields, the Great Exhibition of 18 51 was a turning point, heralding the start of mass production and a new diversity of style. Glass became available to all and was in-creasingly used for decorative purposes. The illustrations of the products of Stourbridge and other important factories in the north of England at that... Tovább

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GLASS
This book features the most important achievements of the glass-maker's and glass-decorator's art, from the rise of Venicte as the glass-manufacturing centre of Europe. The techniques of the richly coloured, enamelled, overlaid, engraved, gilded and Zwischen-gold glass of Central Europe-especially of Bohemia-are described and illustrated, as a background to the great period of English and Irish glass in the i8th century.
A special feature of this book is that it gives, for almost the first time, a full and proper coverage to Victorian ornamental glass-its qualities are now winning the appreciation of collectors who ignored it in the past. As in so many fields, the Great Exhibition of 18 51 was a turning point, heralding the start of mass production and a new diversity of style. Glass became available to all and was in-creasingly used for decorative purposes. The illustrations of the products of Stourbridge and other important factories in the north of England at that time will fascinate many who are interested in this 'new' area of glass antiques.
The colours and expressive forms of Art Nouveau glass in Eürope (Gallé, Daum, Lalique) and North America (Tiffany) around 1900 proclaim the riches of another 'boom' for collecting enthusiasm in an area that was, until recently, comparatively neglected.
Somé headings from GLASS:
Ancient Egyptian scent flasks-drinking
glasses.
Román The Lycurgus cup-The Portland vase - bottles - bowls - millefiori glass -moulded glass.
China The development of an art they learned from the western countries, copying bronzé or porcelain vessels.
Britain Which produced glass in Bristol, Stourbridge, Newcastle, Henley-on-Thames, and in several areas of Sussex where the glass-makers worked to produce glass for Westminster Abbey.
Now that dealing and collecting all kinds of glass objects has become very fashionable it is of great importance to know something of its early history and development and with this in mind the author, John A. Brooks, has written this fascinating account of Glass and its important place in history. Vissza