New Books

Islamic Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume I
Objects with Scratch-Engraved and Wheel-Cut Ornament by David Whitehouse.

The Corning Museum of Glass, 2010.

This is the first volume of three devoted to the early Islamic glass in The Corning Museum of Glass. It contains descriptions of 595 objects and fragments made between the 8th and 11th centuries, A.D. For further details, see www.cmog.org.

Charles Schneider and the pate de verre by Walter Daum which is signed SC

The author’s book includes 50 color pages, and unveils a new side of the glass made at Daum between 1905 and 1915.

Author: Jean Hartwig
19,80 €uro + 4 € de port (France)

ISBN : 2-5522307-37-8

TIFFANY GLASS – A PASSION FOR COLOUR
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Skira Flammarion, Montreal, ed. By Rosalind M. Pepall.

This is a catalog of an exhibition organized by the Montreal Museum and shown in 2009 and 2010. It includes photographs of the 186 windows, lamps and vases in the exhibition as well as other objects, and an extensive text and bibliography.

Bakar - The Glass from the Roman Cemetery
by Zoran Gregl & Irena Lazar

Staklo iz rimske nekropole Bakar = The glass from the Roman cemetery Bakar, (Katalozi i monografije Arheološkoga muzeja u Zagrebu, Sv. 5). Zagreb: Arheološki muzej, 2008. 176 pp, ilustr.

BILLINGUAL CROATIAN-ENGLISH EDITION

The monograph represents cca 170 glass objects from the Roman cemetery in Bakar, Croatia, on the Adriatic coast. The site of Roman Volcera was partialy excavated in 1882 and the material is kept at the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. The glass objects show the vivid traffic and comercial routes that were spread over Mediterranean and brought to Bakar on the eastern Adriatic coast glass items from Italy, Asia Minor, Eastern Mediterreanen and Egypt. The most prominent object is the bowl with engraved figural decoration, belonging to the so called 'contout groove group'.

ISBN 978-953-6789-38-2

Price: 35 Euro + shipping
Order: www.amz.hr
Book exchange: irena.lazar@zrs.upr.si

The Production of Stained Glass in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant
From the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries: Materials and Techniques
by Joost Caen.

The production of stained glass from Brabant and Flanders during the Renaissance and Baroque eras is the focus of the book. This was the golden age of stained glass in these areas and the artists at that time were often highly respected draftsmen and painters.

Brepols Publishers, Turnhout (Belgium), 450 pp., 95 Euros.

ISBN 978-1-905375-64-6

Unikaty Szklo Polskie XXXI Wieku
Unique Glasses: 21st Century Polish Glass
by Stefania Zelasko.

(in English and Polish)

Mémoires de Verre de l’archéogie à l’art contemporain
by Catherine Vaudour

Fully illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of French glass and glass found in France, shown at Musée Archeologique du Val D’Oise Guiry-en-Vexin and Musée Départmental Des Antiquités in Rouen, France in 2009 and 2010.

Editions du Valhermeil, France, 2009.

Roman and Early Christian Glassworking 1st c. B.C. – 6th c. A.D.
Production and Products Vessels from Thessaloniki and its environs
by Anastassios C. Antonaras

This volume examines in detail, for the first time in the Greek scholarship, the production of glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Age through the Early Christian period, analyzing production techniques and decoration. It establishes the socio-economic framework of glassmaking and glassmakers’ social status in the Roman world generally and in Thessaloniki specifically, while identifying probable local products.

611 pp., 692 photographs, 947 drawings (I. Sideris Publications, Athens, 2009) 42 EUR

For orders and additional information: contact@isideris.gr (0030-210-3833434)

ISBN 978-960-08-0470-6

Early Modern Glass Production at the Manor of Reichenau am Freiwald, Lower Austria, by Kinga Tarcsay.

Contents:
Introduction;
Glass production in the ‘Freiwald’;
The ‘Topographia Windhagiana’;
The glasswork Frauenwies;
The glasswork Schönfelderhof;
The glasswork Brennerhof;
The glasswork Reichenau I;
The glasswork Reichenau II;
Glass production in the 18th and 19th Centuries in the former manor of Reichenau am Freiwald;
The Glassworks of the ‘Freiwald’ and the central European glass production;
Summary.

312 pp., 21.1 x 29.7 cm, 211 illustrations, Price: 55,- €

Link: http://www.bda.at/publikationen/1097/13988

Ancient Glass Research Along the Silk Road, Ed. By Gan Fuxi (Chinese Academy of Sciences & Fudan University), Robert H. Brill (The Corning Museum of Glass) & Tian Shouyun (Chinese Academy of Sciences). This book, for the first time, traces the origin, evolution and spreading of ancient Chinese glass technology. It collects a wealth of data contributed by Chinese and foreign experts regarding the history and background, visiual characteristics and chemical compositions of the unearthed ancient glasses from along the Northern (Oasis) Silk Road, especially from the Xinjiang Province (known as the Western Region in ancient times). The book presents new results of the studies on ancient glasses along the Southern and Sea Silk Roads, and discusses the influence of the Silk Road on ancient Chinese glass technology and art.

496 pp. (World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2009) $85.00.

Vitreous Materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: A Window to the East Mediterranean World, by Caroline Jackson and Emma Wager. December 2008. This book presents a series of papers by a group of scholars in the fields of glass studies and Aegean prehistory who came together as part of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology's Round Table discussions to review current research in the area of Aegean glasses and faience. The central themes to this discussion were based upon provenance, occurrence and the role of vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean. Ten papers are presented from the discussions by experts in Bronze Age glass and faience and Aegean specialists, who examine a fascinating and diverse selection of topics surrounding the production, movement, use and role of vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. The contributions bring together our current understanding of these materials and their role in the societies who used them.

240p, b/w and 8p col ills, tabs (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, Oxbow Books 2008)

ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-261-2

Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Glass in the British Museum, by Vera I. Evison edited by Sonja Marzinzik with contributions from I.C. Freestone, M.J.Hughes, C.P. Stapleton and D.R. Hook. May 2008, British Museum Press (ISBN: 09780861591671).

Val Saint Lambert, 180 ans de Savoir-faire et de création (Val Saint Lambert, 180 years of knowledge and creativity), by Christine Kremer and Anne Pluymaekers. When the glass-blower gives life to the molten matter, it is a moment of grace... This is a good description of Val Saint Lambert: 180 years of daring know-how and one of the purest crystal formulas in the world. The technical knowledge of the glassworks as well as the creativity of the craftsmen earned an international reputation for Val Saint Lambert. The glasshouse opened in 1826, and was an immediate success, visible everywhere on the trading routes in the 19th century: from Maharajahs’ palaces to Orient-Express carriages. The crystal from Liege spread from society dinner tables in Belgium all around Europe. Today, Val Saint Lambert is in full expansion and can still be seen everywhere. This book is a detailed history of the company and its production. The glassworks, supplier to the royal Court of Belgium, is a prestigious stop in the tour « La Route du Feu » (The Fire Road).

ISBN 9782874158445 • 160 pages; 39 Euros.

The authors: Christine Kremer has a degree in History. For the last three years she has coordinated the International Exhibition of Ancient Ceramics, an annual meeting at Enghien Castle of antiquaries, amateurs and collectors of fire arts. Anne Pluymaekers is a graduate in Art History and Archaeology. At present, she is assistant curator in the Glass Museum at Charleroi. She is the author of several publications on Val Saint Lambert, and she also teaches at the Antiquaries section of the Forming Centre PME in Liège.