Five thousand years of glass
edited by Hugh Tait
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
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- Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Hugh Tait
- Faking
- 1: Before the invention of glassblowing / Veronica Tatton-Brown and Carol Andrews
- The first glassmakers 2500-1200 BC
- Egypt c. 1450-1100 BC
- Western Asia and the Mediterranean c. 900-300 BC
- Hellenistic and non-blown Roman glass c. 325 BC - AD 400
- 2: The Roman empire / Veronica Tatton-Brown
- Early blown glass 1st century AD
- The Roman achievement AD 100-400
- 3: Early medieval Europe AD 400-1066 / Veronica Tatton-Brown
- 4: The Islamic lands and China / Ralph Finder-Wilson
- Early Islamic glass 8th-11th centuries
- Islamic glass 12th-15th centuries
- Later Islamic glass 16th-19th centuries
- Chinese glass
- 5: Europe from the Middle Ages to the industrial revolution / Hugh Tait
- Byzantium and medieval Europe 10th-15th centuries
- Venice and renaissance Europe 15th-17th centuries
- North of the alps 17th-18th centuries
- 6: Europe and America 1800-1940 / Paul Hollister
- Cut and engraved glass
- Pressed glass
- Some special techniques and achievements
- Five formative artists
- Epilogue / Hugh Tait
- Techniques of glassmaking and decoration / William Gudenrath.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Genres:
- General Notes:
- Originally published 1991 by Abrams as Glass, 5,000 years.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-249) and index. - Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Call Numbers:
- NK5106 .G54 2004
- ISBNs:
- 0812218884 (alk. paper)
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2005273161
- OCLC Numbers:
- 59099088