Title: The prehistory & history of glassmaking technology /
Authors: McCray, Patrick; American Ceramic Society.
Date: 1998
Publisher: The American Ceramic Society,
Physical description: 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: T
Contents: Antiquity and utopia : the paradox in glass studies / Michael Vickers -- Post-medieval glass : production, characterization, and value / Julian Henderson -- The glass flowers / Carlo Pantano, Susan Rossi-Wilcox, and David Lange -- A gilded and enamelled glass plate in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Stefano Carboni, Lisa Pilosi, and Mark T. Wypyski -- "Kind of blue" : glass of the Amarna period replicated / Paul T. Nicholson and Caroline M. Jackson -- The mineralogical and metallurgical origins of Roman opaque colored glasses / Jennifer L. Mass, Richard E. Stone, and Mark T. Wypyski -- Back to the roots : the raw materials, glass recipes, and glassmaking practices of Theophilus / J.W. Smedley, C.M. Jackson and C.A. Booth. The English glassmaker and his search for raw materials in the 16th and 17th centuries / David Crossley -- Interaction between glassworkers and ceramists / E. Marianne Stern -- Glass and the Mycenaean palaces of the Mediterranean / Georg Nightingale -- Glass coloring works within a copper-centered industrial complex in the late Bronze Age Egypt / Thilo Rehren, Edgar Pusch, and Anja Herold. The interdependence of glass and vitreous faience production at Amarna / Andrew J. Shortland and Michael S. Tite -- Reflections of the Roman Empire : the first century glass industry as seen through traditions of manufacture / Christopher Lemke -- The development and diffusion of glassmaking in Pre-Mongol Russia / Thomas Noonan, Roman Kovalev, and Heidi Sherman -- The operation of wood fired glass melting furnaces / Michael Cable -- The social context of glass production in Roman Britain / Jennifer Price.
Notes: "Proceedings ... held at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 4-7, 1997"--T.p. verso. Errata slip inserted.