Author: L M. BickertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
English Drinking Glasses 1675-1825
Author: L M. BickertonEnglish Drinking Glasses 1675–1825
Author: L. M. BickertonPublisher: Shire Publications
ISBN: 9780852636619
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In 1675 George Ravenscroft invented the lead glass formula which was to transform glass selling in England. Previously table glass was imported from the continent, mostly from Venice, but now an indigenous industry developed rapidly, producing drinking glasses of such quality and fascinating design as to capture the entire home market. This book explores the variety of drinking glasses, from the heavy balusters of before 1700 to the faceted stems of around 1800 which are so sought after by collectors. Superb craftsmanship and ingenuity, typical of all art forms in the eighteenth century, are beautifully encapsulated in the drinking glass, and a large and significant collection can be housed in a couple of display cases. Accompanied with detailed illustrations of the range of glass designs, this is an ideal guide for any collector.
English Silver, 1675-1825
Author: Stephen Guernsey Cook EnskoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hallmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses
Author: L. M. BickertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glassware
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Old English Glasses
Author: Albert HartshornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
An Illustrated Guide to Eighteenth-century English Drinking Glasses
Author: L. M. BickertonPublisher: Random House Business Books
ISBN:
Category : Drinking glasses
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An Archaeology of the English Atlantic World, 1600 – 1700
Author: Charles E. Orser, Jr.Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108566626
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
An Archaeology of the British Atlantic World, 1600–1700 is the first book to apply the methods of modern-world archaeology to the study of the seventeenth-century English colonial world. Charles E. Orser, Jr explores a range of material evidence of daily life collected from archaeological excavations throughout the Atlantic region, including England, Ireland, western Africa, Native North America, and the eastern United States. He considers the archaeological record together with primary texts by contemporary writers. Giving particular attention to housing, fortifications, delftware, and stoneware, Orser offers new interpretations for each type of artefact. His study demonstrates how the archaeological record expands our understanding of the Atlantic world at a critical moment of its expansion, as well as to the development of the modern, Western world.
Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses
Author: L. M. BickertonPublisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN: 9781851493449
Category : Drinking glasses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Dictionary of English Furniture by Ralph Edwards (1954 Revised Edition) is the most authoritative general work on English antique furniture ever published. The first edition of this work was published 1924-27. It was instantly recognised as the primary reference on the evolution of English furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian period. It was consistently in demand and soon went out of print. The Second Edition, published in 1954, was entirely revised and enlargedby one of the two original collaborators, Ralph Edwards, who at that time was Keeper of the Department of Woodwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was an outstanding authority, well placed to produce such a mammoth revision. The Dictionary is, within its chronological limits, a comprehensive survey of the whole wide field of English domestic furniture. Later research has added details but the basic body of knowledge remains unchallenged. It remains the standard book referred to in all sale catalogues. In three volumes, now available in three different bindings 43 colour & 2690 b/w illustrations
Archaeological Laboratory Methods
Author: Mark Q. SuttonPublisher: Kendall Hunt
ISBN: 9780787281533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Blackbeard's Sunken Prize
Author: Mark U. Wilde-RamsingPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily armed ship and its crew captured all manner of riches from merchant ships sailing the Caribbean to the Carolinas. But in June 1718, with British authorities closing in, Blackbeard reportedly ran Queen Anne's Revenge aground just off the coast of what is now North Carolina's Fort Macon State Park. What went down with the ship remained hidden for centuries, as the legend of Blackbeard continued to swell in the public's imagination. When divers finally discovered the wreck in 1996, it was immediately heralded as a major find in both maritime archaeology and the history of piracy in the Atlantic. Now the story of Queen Anne's Revenge and its fearsome captain is revealed in full detail. Having played vital roles in the shipwreck's recovery and interpretation, Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing and Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton vividly reveal in words and images the ship's first use as a French privateer and slave ship, its capture and use by Blackbeard's armada, the circumstances of its sinking, and all that can be known about life as an eighteenth-century pirate based on a wealth of artifacts now raised from the ocean floor.