5000 years of glass
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Five thousand years of glass |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Tait, Hugh.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
British Museum Press,
2012.
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| Ausgabe: | New updated edition |
| Umfang/Format: |
280 p. : many ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
