Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Fine Early American Glass
Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Early American Glass
Author: Rhea Mansfield Knittle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Fine Early American Glass
Author: Collectors Sales and Services, Pomfret Center, Connecticut
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Fine Early American Glass
Author: Arman's Collectors Sales and Services, Pomfret Center
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Early American Glass
Author: Rhea Mansfield Knittle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
American Glass
Author: John Stuart Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300226691
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300226691
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.
Early American Glass
Author: Rhea Mansfield Knittle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Early American Glass
Author: William Wilson Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glassware
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glassware
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description