Gilded and enamelled glass from the Middle East
By: edited by Rachel Ward.
Contributors: Ward, Rachel.; British Museum.; Association for the History of Glass (Great Britain); British Museum. Dept. of Oriental Antiquities (1937- )
Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Gilt glass -- Middle East -- Congresses.; Enameled glass -- Middle East -- Congresses.; Glassware, Medieval -- Middle East -- Congresses.; Gilt glass -- Middle East -- Influence -- Congresses.; Enameled glass -- Middle East -- Influence -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This is a volume of the collected papers given by 30 specialist contributors at an international conference held in the British Museum in April 1995. The focus is on the materials, techniques, iconography, patronage and trade of gilded and enamelled glass of 13th-15th century Egypt and Syria, as well as the origins of the technique in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods and its influence on production in Venice and other European sites between the 14th and 19th centuries. Contributors include archaeologists, art historians, historians, scientists, and glassmakers from Cairo, Jerusalem, St Petersburg, New York, Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg, Granada, Venice, Dublin, Sheffield, Bristol, Edinburgh, and London.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"This book contains papers given at the conference ... organized by the Association for the History of Glass and the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, and held at the British Museum from 6 to 8 April 1995"--Pref.